Mayor says Louisville shooter’s rifle ‘will be back on the streets’ under state law

Kentucky law requires officers to send assault-style rifle used in shooting to state police officials to sell at auction

The mayor of Louisville has said Kentucky law would make him a criminal if he destroys the assault-style rifle used by a gunman in Monday’s killing of five bank employees in his city.

An emotional Craig Greenberg was speaking Tuesday at a lunchtime press conference during which police revealed the killer – an employee at the Old National Bank who also wounded eight others, including two critically – bought the weapon legally six days previously.