Buyback program yields a barrel of guns
More than 145 weapons once tucked away in the closets and drawers of local homes will soon be nothing more ...
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Detroit Police Department pays $16,820 for 365 firearms at recent buyback.
Image: cm_e/Flickr The total paid for the guns was $16,820, which came from funds contributed by Catholics in both city ...
Delaware Senate votes to end state-funded gun “buyback” program.
Image: Hermann for NY Daily News Yesterday, the Delaware Senate defeated Senate Bill 204, legislation to renew the state-funded gun ...
Passaic County, NJ spends $20,000, takes in 282 weapons in Paterson gun buyback program (video).
The funds came out of money seized during drug arrests, but the $20,000 amount covers only the cost of buying ...
At “gas for guns” buyback in Baton Rouge calibers less than .38 get $50 gas card; assault rifles get $300.
Image: Heather McClelland for The Advocate The program, sponsored by Circle K and local law enforcement, encourages people with unused ...
Cleveland, Ohio melts down 700 firearms after buyback program (video).
In what has become an annual spectacle, the city dumped more than 700 firearms into the Number 1 Basic Oxygen ...
NYPD actually ‘buys back’ missing gun stolen from 103rd Precinct locker.
A gun swiped from a police lieutenant's locker - sparking a probe into whether it was an inside job by ...
2 Wounded at LA School When Gun in Backpack Accidentally Fires
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A gun in a 10th-grader's backpack accidentally discharged when he dropped the bag, wounding two students ...
NYPD, Brooklyn clergy gets guns off streets, buys 174 weapons.
The NYPD and Brooklyn clergy paired up Saturday to buy scores of guns to get them off the street, police ...
Bay Area, California buyback program nets more than 200 firearms.
More than 200 guns were turned in to police Saturday through its annual gun buyback program. Residents from throughout the ...
New Bedford, MA gun exchange nets three times as many guns as last year’s buyback.
Organizers of a weekend gun buyback program in New Bedford say they took about 140 weapons off city streets, three ...
Report says Tulsa, OK could make money selling confiscated guns.
An efficiency report prepared for the city says Tulsa could make money by selling guns confiscated by police instead of ...
Detroit police gun buyback nets 800 weapons.
All of the $20,000 donated for a gun buyback program held Thursday by the Detroit Police Department was spent and ...
Bergen County, NJ gun buyback yields over 700 weapons.
Bergen County’s first gun buyback program collected more than 700 weapons, many found in attics, closets and basements, Sheriff Leo ...
W. Virginia public safety program draws fire from gun rights group.
A new, voluntary gun registration program in the state’s capital concerns a statewide gun rights group. The program is designed ...
Hoagies-for-guns proves fruitless, authorities aren’t surprised.
The bullet holes on the front of Raseesha Brightman's Point Breeze house are a painful reminder of the day her ...
Gun buyback program returns to Daytona Beach.
For the second year in a row, police will pay $50 for every gun that's surrendered during a 12-hour period ...
Rhode Island police offer Wal-Mart cards for gun buyback program.
Providence police are hoping to get guns off the streets by offering to exchange them for Wal-Mart gift cards, no ...
Los Angeles’ guns-for-gifts nets 2,500 firearms, spends $197,400.
A citywide gun for gifts program on Mother's Day eve collected some 2,500 firearms -- about 800 more than during ...
4,050 weapons off Chicago streets thanks to buyback program.
There were shiny six-shooter revolvers, polished wooden rifles, semiautomatic handguns, pistols, rifles and even two hand grenades. In a citywide ...