Lovely. Some municipalities try to reduce gun availability in communities by sponsoring gun buybacks — providing a certain amount of cash (or gift cards) for no-longer-desired weapons, and then destroying the unwanted firearms, the idea being that unwanted guns are removed from circulation.
That offends the good, gun-owning GOP of Arizona. So, with the NRA's support, they've now passed a state law saying that if a city or county government holds a gun buyback, they then have to turn around and sell those guns to the highest bidder.
Nice to see that whole "local government is most representative and responsive and should be given priority over higher government mandates" philosophy so eloquently ignored by Jan Brewer, et al.
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Ariz. bill requiring resale of buyback guns signed
PHOENIX—Arizona cities and counties that hold community gun buyback events will have to sell the surrendered weapons instead of destroying them under a bill Gov.
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They should resell them to Australia.