Participants who turned in guns were given up to $500 for each firearm at nine program locations throughout the state
. Participants who turned in handguns also received $500 for the first weapon and an additional $150 for each additional handgun surrendered.
In total, nine buyback locations were set up across the state, including two in New York City. At one of the buyback locations in Brooklyn, officials reported that they received 90 guns in just three hours, with the Brooklyn district attorney, Eric Gonzalez, being “especially pleased” by the amount of smaller guns that were surrendered, ABC 7“There’s a lot of firepower on this table,” Gonzalez said as he attended the buyback program at the All Saints Church in Brooklyn on Saturday.
Meanwhile in Syracuse, 751 firearms were relinquished by residents. The vast surrender came just days after the Syracuse mayor, Ben Walsh, attributed the rising number of guns to the city’s increase in the rate of violent crime. “There are too many damn guns in this country. They’re everywhere. And we have too many states that are abdicating their responsibility to ensure that guns are being sold safely,” Walsh“And our federal government is abdicating their responsibility to ensure that guns are being handled safely,” he said, adding that Syracuse officials have so far removed 76 guns from the community this year compared with 55 guns that were removed at the same time last year.
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