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Gun Buyback

Monday, April 8, 2013

New Jerseyans Surrendering Guns At Record Pace

Nearly 10,000 guns have been turned in across the state since the December shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Authorities say the massacre prompted residents to rid their homes of guns.

The doors of two Camden churches swung open shortly after daybreak on Dec. 14, with law enforcement officials inside hoping a two-day cash-for-guns program might help put a dent in the crime rate in one of America’s most violent cities. But just 90 minutes after people began to trickle into the churches, a troubled 20-year-old named Adam Lanza shot his way into an elementary school in a small Connecticut town as idyllic as Camden is gritty. As the scope of the Newtown school massacre came into focus that afternoon – 20 children and six adults lay dead – the trickle of people with guns to surrender in Camden grew into a stream and, by the following morning, a torrent. Officials collected 1,137 firearms during those two days in Camden, the …

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matt dougherty

10:13 pm on Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Sure, help them after they Kill other innocent children ! Put them to death that is what I'd do to help them ! BASTARDS !   more ›

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Buyback Takes More Than 1,100 Guns Off Streets

A gun buyback held at two locations in Camden this weekend nets more than 1,100 weapons.

Camden County residents turned in more than 1,100 guns at a buyback event held at two churches in Camden this weekend. At up to $250 per firearm, the two-day event put $156,000 into the pockets of county residents, according to Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa, who announced the buyback results at Camden Police Department's Federal Street headquarters Tuesday afternoon. "I am not suggesting that gun buybacks are some sort of magic solution to the complex and multi-faceted problem of violence in our society. But we have to keep forging ahead using all of the strategies at our disposal," Chiesa said. "And while we’re at it, we have to keep thinking about new strategies as well. Here in New Jersey, inaction is not an option." Chiesa …

CDOG3

9:52 am on Thursday, December 20, 2012

Gun buybacks. So they can buy newer ones. What a joke. How about sending them to jail and let them do their full sentence.   more ›

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