Posted: 12/17/2004 8:14:59 PM EDT
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Prosecutor offers $50 for all guns BRIDGETON -- Area residents will have a chance to surrender firearms with no questions asked and get paid for doing so when the Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office conducts its fourth buyback program of the year on Saturday. "Given what appears to be an increase in violence involving guns in Cumberland County, it is important to get guns off the street," said Prosecutor Ronald J. Casella. "So far, the buyback program has been highly successful." Law enforcement officials will be at 10 Washington St. from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to collect any types of firearms. A community health fair will be held in conjunction with the buyback program across the street at the Everett P. Marino Center. The Prosecutor's Office will pay $50 for any type of firearm using money from its forfeiture account. During a similar program in September at Vineland Fire Department headquarters at Fourth and Wood streets, 185 firearms were turned in, including some assault weapons. Similar initiatives earlier this year in Bridgeton and Millville netted a total of 310 guns and rifles of various sizes and calibers, also including several assault weapons. The guns are eventually taken to Cumberland Recycling Corporation in Millville for destruction, Casella said. Originally published December 17, 2004 |
WHAT only $50. per gun!!!Youse guys colected millions in forfetures.
Doesn't it seem as though some "assault rifles" are ALWAYS collected? If any really were turned in they were busted or had bodies on them.
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I'd never do it. I wouldn't care if they gave me $1000 for a picture of a gun. It encourages them and provides publicity photos for their media circus interviews about how successful it has been. If they want to do something useful let them auction off the collected firearms and return the money to the taxpayers in the form of lower taxes. They also destroy collector grade and historical firearms on occasion. |
+1 Agree, nicely said. |
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County officials call holiday gun buyback program a success BRIDGETON -- Dozens of gun owners turned out Saturday to trade in their weapons for cash during a buyback program and health fair. The second annual gun buyback held by the Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office netted 60 firearms, including 40 handguns. "The handguns are always the type of firearms that we like to have turned in," Prosecutor Ronald Casella said. Authorities took 111 guns off the streets at last year's event. But Casella said this weekend's buyback was a success, especially considering a shorter publicity campaign and the event's proximity to Christmas. With no questions asked, participants received $50 for each gun turned over to authorities. Officials hope such efforts will reduce the number of crimes involving firearms. "I think that with the holidays coming up and taking the guns off the streets, what better Christmas present than that?" said James Edwards, outreach coordinator for the city's Community Health Care clinic. "It's something that we can all benefit from, because by taking some more guns off the streets, the safer the community will be." Recent gun buybacks in Cumberland County: Bridgeton -- 60 guns collected Saturday. Vineland -- 185 collected in September. Millville -- 192 in April. Bridgeton -- 111 in November 2003. Originally published December 20, 2004 |
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"The handguns are always the type of firearms that we like to have turned in," Prosecutor Ronald Casella said." "I think that with the holidays coming up and taking the guns off the streets, what better Christmas present than that?" said James Edwards, outreach coordinator for the city's Community Health Care clinic. "It's something that we can all benefit from, because by taking some more guns off the streets, the safer the community will be." What streets are these idiots talking about? These guns weren't turned in by street criminals. The ultimate objective of these buybacks is to create publicity and anti-gun sentiment which they hope will result in a ban on all firearms in NJ. |
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i wonder if the $50 applies to homemade zip guns? Lets see a short piece of copper tube with a >22 long shoved in it, duct taped to a crudely formed 2x4 handle. Like the visa commercial .22 long cartridge ... $.02 copper tubing ... $.07 piece of wood ... $ .09 scamming the local gun buy back with homeade piece of crap zip guns....PRICELESS |
| 80% of the firearms turned in were worthless junk or BB guns and the people knew that. I saw one single-shot shotgun earn $50 that had more rust than a nun's zipper and no trigger mechanism. You would occaionally see a decent one, but more than likely it was used in a crime. These would be the ones you would end up with. Hardly worth the effort and chance. |