52-25.1 - Reporting of confiscated firearms.

§ 52-25.1. Reporting of confiscated firearms.

The Superintendent shall establish and maintain within the Department ofState Police a Criminal Firearms Clearinghouse as a central repository ofinformation regarding all firearms seized, forfeited, found or otherwisecoming into the possession of any state or local law-enforcement agency ofthe Commonwealth which are believed to have been used in the commission of acrime. The Superintendent shall adopt and promulgate regulations prescribingthe form for reporting this information and the time and manner of submissionof the form.

In addition to any other information which the Superintendent may require,the form shall require (i) the serial number or other identifying informationon the firearm, if available, (ii) a brief description of the circumstancesunder which the firearm came into the possession of the law-enforcementagency, including the crime which was or may have been committed with thefirearm, (iii) the name of or other identifying information on the personfrom whom the firearm was taken, (iv) the original place of sale and, ifknown, the chain of possession of the firearm, and (v) the disposition of thefirearm.

(1993, cc. 475, 834; 1994, cc. 394, 502.)