Buyback

New Procedural Complications Shut Down Colorado Gun Buyback Program

Buyback program yields a barrel of guns

Detroit Police Department pays $16,820 for 365 firearms at recent buyback.

New Haven, CT gun buyback brings in “Mac-10 military rifle.”

Chicago police collect 5,500 weapons during gun turn-in weekend (video).

Delaware Senate votes to end state-funded gun “buyback” program.

Through IOUs, thousands of dollars still owed to New Orleans buy back program participants (video).

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 weapons, and doesn’t include staff hours to run the program.…

Los Angeles gun buyback program collects 600 firearms in first hour.

KTLA The fourth annual gun buyback program was held Saturday at six locations throughout Los Angeles. More than 600 weapons were turned in during just the first hour, according to…

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 or unsecured guns to give them to authorities so they…

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 Furnace at the Cleveland Arcelor Mittal facility. The formerly useful…

NYPD netted 71 firearms in Brooklyn gun buyback.

The NYPD says 71 firearms were turned in during a one-day gun buyback program in Brooklyn. Among the weapons turned in Saturday were a fully-loaded Tec-9 and 22 other semi-automatics.…

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 disgruntled officers - was sold to an NYPD buyback program…

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 at a Los Angeles high school, the campus principal said.…

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 said. The team, dubbed the Coalition to Reduce Violent Crime,…

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 Bay Area drove to a south Hayward BART station parking…

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 times as many as a similar event last year. The…

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 melting them down. The idea is one of about 1,100…

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