Controversy over auctioning guns used in shootings reignites after Louisville bank shooting.

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The family of the Louisville bank shooter and the city's mayor are calling for a change in Kentucky law that requires confiscated guns to be sold at public auction, including the AR-15-style rifle used in the recent shooting. The law, in place since 2016, sets a clear process for the firearms' fate, but the family wants the rifle to be legally destroyed. Kentucky has some of the highest firearm death rates in the US, and experts attribute gun violence to relaxed laws in obtaining firearms and the absence of any training requirements to handle a legally purchased gun.
- Kentucky law allows guns used in shootings to be auctioned. The family of the Louisville bank shooter wants to stop that CNN
- 'Tears and blank stares': Chaplain says Louisville bank shooting WLKY News Louisville
- Family of Louisville bank shooter wants his AR-15 rifle destroyed Fox News
- Rifle used by Louisville bank shooter likely won't go to auction WLKY Louisville
- Louisville shooter left notes revealing part of his goal was to show how easily a mentally ill person can buy a gun in the US, sources say CNN
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