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Buffalo Held Its Latest Gun Buyback: Police Collected More Than 600 Firearms
15 May 2011
Buffalo News (New York)
Buffalo held its fourth gun buyback Saturday, and police collected more than 600 firearms at seven churches throughout the city.
The no-questions-asked program yielded more than 200 nonworking guns, 170 rifles, 219 handguns and even a 12-gauge "street sweeper" assault rifle.
A curious aspect of the program was that more than half the weapons were turned in at just one of the seven locations— St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in South Buffalo, considered among the... (GunPolicy.org)