Posted: 2/6/2004 4:35:05 PM EDT
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If one was a Law Enforcement Officer and while you were an officer you bought guns that require you to be be an LEO upon retiring do you get to keep them? Please explain? Does it change department to department? Pardon my ignorance. Thanks ahead of time. |
| Short answer: no. The way the law is written, you can only keep LEO weapons and magazines after you retire if they were originally owned by your department and the department 'gifts' them to you upon retirement. I would expect that will be one of the things changed in any new AW ban, as it makes zero sense. |
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Quoted: Short answer: no. The way the law is written, you can only keep LEO weapons and magazines after you retire if they were originally owned by your department and the department 'gifts' them to you upon retirement. I would expect that will be one of the things changed in any new AW ban, as it makes zero sense. Yes and No on the originally owned part of your answer. ATF says that if the officer, prior to his/her retirement, donates or gifts or in some other way transfers ownership of the weapons, mags, etc. to the department, the department can then gift them back to the officer upon retirement. They caution that it should be done BEFORE the officer reaches retirement, but there was no specific time frame prior to retirement mentioned in the letter. Apparently what they will not approve is a straw-man transfer with the obvious aim of avoiding the intent of the statute. The transfer to the department must be done some time before the officer's retirement..... |
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