{"id":1316971,"date":"2019-11-26T14:15:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T21:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=991222"},"modified":"2019-11-26T14:15:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T21:15:20","slug":"new-castle-town-council-directs-police-department-to-sell-confiscated-firearms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/new-castle-town-council-directs-police-department-to-sell-confiscated-firearms\/","title":{"rendered":"New Castle Town Council directs police department to sell confiscated firearms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In this file photo New Castle Police Chief Tony Pagni pulls open one of the evidence lockers in the new police headquarters.<\/strong>
Ryan Hoffman \/ Citizen Telegram |<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The New Castle Police Department has roughly 20 guns that it would like to get off of its hands.<\/p>\n

According to New Castle Chief of Police Tony Pagni, the police department has accumulated the firearms over the years as a result of several different scenarios.<\/p>\n

\u201cProhibited use of weapons, hunting within city limits and so forth,\u201d Pagni said at a recent New Castle Town Council meeting. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a bunch of pistols. We\u2019ve got a bunch of rifles and a bunch of shotguns that we can sell.\u201d<\/p>\n

In some cases, residents turned guns over to the police department for safekeeping and then never took them back, Pagni said.<\/p>\n

Seeking direction from the town council, Pagni wanted to know whether the police department should pursue selling the guns via a third party, federally licensed dealer, or simply have the weapons demolished altogether.<\/p>\n

Pagni estimated the entire arsenal of guns as being worth between $10,000 and $15,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can exploit avenues to dispose of these guns that make it a win-win for our town,\u201d Pagni said. \u201cMeaning that they go back into society to people that have passed the background check and they\u2019re legally able to own, harbor and possess those guns.\u201d<\/p>\n

Council directed Pagni to pursue selling the weapons through a federally licensed dealer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe police department does not make assets off of that,\u201d Pagni said.<\/p>\n

Instead, sale proceeds will go into the town\u2019s general fund.<\/p>\n

Additionally, when Mayor Art Riddile asked Pagni if there was any precedent surrounding the issue, the chief of police replied, \u201ctons.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI can tell you four municipalities around here sell them,\u201d Pagni said. \u201cFour municipalities [demolish] them.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Pagni, one gun that was either confiscated by or given to the New Castle Police for safekeeping has been with the department since 1963.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a commodity just sitting there,\u201d Pagni said. \u201cWe don\u2019t need to keep that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this file photo New Castle Police Chief Tony Pagni pulls open one of the evidence lockers in the new police headquarters.Ryan Hoffman \/ Citizen Telegram | The New Castle Police Department has roughly 20 guns that it would like to get off of its hands. According to New Castle Chief of Police Tony Pagni, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 11:41:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}