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

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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.

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