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Are the police legally allowed to give it to a museum, or do they have to destroy it?
Currently they have to destroy it. The museums want this to change, for obvious reasons.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2245749/Officers-stunned-woman-drops-40-000-WWII-German-rifle-destroyed-police-buy-program.html