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Senate advances bill to allow sale of forfeited firearms to licensed dealers after debate over safeguards
Summary
Senate committee recommended SB 137 for passage. The bill would add an option to existing civil asset forfeiture law allowing seized firearms to be sold or transferred to a licensed federal firearms dealer. An amendment to require public auction failed on the floor.
The Kansas Senate reported favorably on Senate Bill 137, a bill that would add an option to the state’s civil asset forfeiture law allowing forfeited firearms to be sold or transferred to a licensed federal firearms dealer.
Senator Thompson, senator from Johnson and the bill’s carrier, told the Committee of the Whole the change is a technical conforming amendment to bring the civil asset forfeiture code into alignment with existing criminal-code options…
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