NJ Collected HOW MANY Guns in
its Recent Buyback Program?
By Erika Haas. August 4th, 2017
New Jersey had its largest gun buyback event last weekend, collecting a total of 4,775 firearms across Camden, Trenton and Newark.
Residents turned in 1,973 handguns, 1,142 shotguns, 1,025 rifles and 129 "assault weapons" as New Jersey police call them. With each firearm being handed in -- no questions asked -- in exchange for $100 to $200, the state ended up shelling out a whopping $481,620 in cash.
Attorney General Christopher Porrino announced the news at a press conference at Newark Police Communication Center this week, noting that the event got 2,000 more guns off the streets than any previous buyback program in the state. Even more shocking, more firearms were collected this past weekend than have ever been collected by law enforcement officers through arrests and seizures in a single year.
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The whole expression "gun buyback" is itself a misnomer seeing as the guns had never been sold to the owners by law enforcement! "Surrender" would be a much more valid label. So, $100 to $200 per gun was reportedly paid out which seems like a fairly good deal for someone wanting to move on their beat-up old AK or SKS. It also seems unlikely that anyone would be handing over a half decent 1911 or a mint condition trap shot gun. Being very generous, just perhaps some guns handed in might have been kept out of criminal hands - beyond that, it's little more than a ''feel good'' sop to NJ tax payers.
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