HB 4415

Abstract

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that any weapon voluntarily surrendered to any police agency in a firearm buy-back program, after having been determined not to be stolen, may be transferred to the sheriff of the county who may proceed to destroy it, or may be preserved as property of the governmental body whose police agency seized the weapon, or may be transferred to the Department of State Police for use by the crime laboratory system, for training purposes, or for any other application as deemed appropriate by the Department. Provides that any weapon voluntarily surrendered to any police agency for safekeeping, after having been determined not to be stolen, and when in due course no legitimate claim has been made for return of the weapon within 60 days of notice mailed to the last known address of the person surrendering the weapon, may be transferred to the sheriff of the county who may proceed to destroy it, or may be preserved as property of the governmental body whose police agency seized the weapon, or may be transferred to the Department of State Police for use by the crime laboratory system, for training purposes, or for any other application as deemed appropriate by the Department.