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Newark Revives Gun BuyBack Program

Hoping to reduce violence and replicate the success of earlier gun buyback programs, the state's largest city on Monday embarked on two months of purchasing weapons from residents.



In 2001 and 2002, Newark spent more than $100,000 to purchase 1,099 firearms from residents. This year's program will use $50,000 seized from wrongdoers.



This is an opportunity for Newark residents to turn in their guns and receive cash, no questions asked,' Mayor Sharpe James said. If you have a gun in your possession, bring it in to any of our police bureaus. The life you save may be your own or that of a loved one.


Residents do not have to give their names when surrendering weapons, which can be at any hour of the day, police said.



The program is aimed at reducing accidental injury, suicide, domestic violence and celebratory gunfire, police said.



The city will pay $50 for rifles and shotguns, $75 for semiautomatic pistols and revolvers, and $150 for automatic handguns and assault rifles. People may turn in up to three weapons at a time.



Those bringing firearms to police stations, or special mobile vans, should wrap the weapons in paper or tape before transporting them, police said.



Newark has been buying back weapons with federal money since 1995.



Serious crime in Newark dropped 2.7 percent drop in 2004 from the year before, although 86 murders were recorded, compared to 83 in 2003, according to the state's Uniform Crime Report.



source: http://waterandwoods.net/news.phpextend.1054

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