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Cash-for-Guns Program Gets Boost
WASHINGTON, Aug 25, 1999 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- District of Columbia police more than doubled their budget for getting illegal guns off the streets by buying them and still spent nearly all of it the second day of the program.
Police said 1,058 guns were turned in Tuesday at police stations throughout the city, including handguns, sawed-off shotguns and assault rifles, all of them illegal in the District of Columbia.
Most of the guns turned in on Monday and Tuesday did not come from criminals, police said, and 57 of them were not paid for because they are legal under the district's law.
Catherine Gilbert of Silver Spring, Md., was among several elderly women who participated in the program. ``I inherited the gun. I've got no need for it. I don't want it in my house,'' she said.
Many who turned in guns were from suburban Maryland and Virginia. They included one collector who handed over more than two dozen guns. Police put no geographical limits on the program, saying guns from other areas can easily be used in the district.
Police are paying for the $225,000 program with money and assets collected from drug dealers. Assistant Police Chief Terrance Gainer said the department collects about $800,000 in such funds annually.
Police originally allotted $100,000 for the program but decided to add more money to it Monday, when they collected 1,164 guns.
Copyright 1999 Associated Press, All rights reserved.
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Cash-for-Guns Program Gets Boost
WASHINGTON, Aug 25, 1999 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- District of Columbia police more than doubled their budget for getting illegal guns off the streets by buying them and still spent nearly all of it the second day of the program.
Police said 1,058 guns were turned in Tuesday at police stations throughout the city, including handguns, sawed-off shotguns and assault rifles, all of them illegal in the District of Columbia.
Most of the guns turned in on Monday and Tuesday did not come from criminals, police said, and 57 of them were not paid for because they are legal under the district's law.
Catherine Gilbert of Silver Spring, Md., was among several elderly women who participated in the program. ``I inherited the gun. I've got no need for it. I don't want it in my house,'' she said.
Many who turned in guns were from suburban Maryland and Virginia. They included one collector who handed over more than two dozen guns. Police put no geographical limits on the program, saying guns from other areas can easily be used in the district.
Police are paying for the $225,000 program with money and assets collected from drug dealers. Assistant Police Chief Terrance Gainer said the department collects about $800,000 in such funds annually.
Police originally allotted $100,000 for the program but decided to add more money to it Monday, when they collected 1,164 guns.
Copyright 1999 Associated Press, All rights reserved.
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John/az
"The middle of the road between the extremes of good and evil, is evil. When freedom is at stake, your silence is not golden, it's yellow..." RKBA!
http://www.countdown9199.com