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PHOENIX - The widow of a Phoenix police officer is suing the city to stop the sale of the gun used to kill her husband.

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Julie Erfle is challenging the potential sale of the firearm used in the 2007 line-of-duty death of her husband, Officer Nick Erfle .

"Nick had survived several bouts of cancer and some medical complications that nearly took his life," Erfle said. "And so what had happened there was definitely a sense of like, this can't be, you know, this can't be, like not after everything that we've gone through."

Erfle said she was devastated to learn the weapon not only still existed but could be put up for auction. She filed a lawsuit against the City of Phoenix and Police Chief Matt Giordano, challenging the city’s stance that a 2013 state law

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