NYPD Buys 174 Guns At Brooklyn Cash For Guns Events

Yesterday, two Brownsville churches held "cash for guns" trade-in events in an attempt to get guns off the street. Working handguns could be traded for a $200 bank card, and a working rifle or shotgun was worth a $20 card, no questions asked. At the end of the day, the NYPD had bought a total of 174 guns, including 60 semiautomatic weapons, 72 revolvers, 19 rifles, five shotguns and one sawed-off shotgun, as well as a few "improvised" firearms.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly applauded church leaders for their leadership in helping make the gun program a success and Brooklyn streets safer." Since 2008, the NYPD has recovered around 6,000 with cash for guns programs, including getting 1,216 guns in the Bronx in January. And now the NYPD has all these new guns to play with!

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By Jaya Saxena in News on December 12, 2010 11:14 AM

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Stiff01

7,216 guns off the streets in comparison to the thousands who haven't turned their's in , As well as the steady torrent of new guns flooding NYC from out of state dealers . Yeah, That's progression for you .

potsmoker

working rifle or shitgun for $20....hahhaa, they lowered the price because of all the strawmen shipped in from upstate gun dealers unloading their inventory of trash

JacqueMehoff

I don't think that's it. Why only $20 for a rifle when a skilled marksman can pick off his target hundreds of yards away?
Anyway, one can pick up a pot metal lorcin, raven, jennings or bryco for $100 and make double that to get a nicer gun.

handsomedevil

In 2009 cops conducted a half-million stop and frisks, and they confiscated 762 guns! In your face, church groups!

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