Ah, yes--with prices of fully-automatic firearms vastly and artificially inflated by the Hughes Amendment's prohibition of private ownership of post-1986 machine guns, only the wealthy will be buying the department's Tommy guns.
I wonder if these will be transferable on a form 4.
No one seems to have a problem this guy being so anti-gun...until his dept. can make a few bucks from it?
Agreed. I'm sure he's justifying his decision to release those "dangerous weapons" by assuring everyone around that if they go into the NFA registry there's almost no chance they will be used for nefarious purposes. And that position is actually correct.
However the bottom line is money talks. It's not really responsible to keep such things in their inventory when they can be turned into more usable weapons or equipment. Even though they're still quite effective, they are running a police department not a museum. (I kind of wonder why they're keeping the two Lewis guns.) But I'd just about bet the price of one of those nice Colt 21s that if someone offered him $1,000,000.00 cash if he'd dispose of them, he would smile, take the money, chop them up into pieces, and they'd never see the light of day. Then he could get everything they needed and be politically correct all at the same time.