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As demand for firearms is currently high, this is an especially fortuitous time to sell the property. Working firearms are seldom worth less than $100, so the entire collection will probably bring more than $100,000 for the City and police.

Destroying valuable property for emotional reasons betrays the public trust.

I think it would be much worse than a betrayal of public trust.

I think the destruction of $100,000 of public property would be closer to criminal mischief or vandalism.

If state law requires the sale of the confiscated property and she went ahead and ordered the property destroyed she could be guilt of malfeasance in office.

Even these days $100,000 is a lot of money and to a city government with falling property tax and income tax revenues she just does not really have the option to throw away that kind of money.