REMINDER: Gun Buyback In Monmouth Friday, Saturday
State-run buyback program happening in Asbury Park and Keansburg
A state-run gun buyback program, the fourth in a series, is scheduled for Friday and Saturday in two Monmouth County locations.
The program, which will pay up to $250 for each weapon, is being held by the state Attorney General's office in conjunction with the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, the Asbury Park Police Department, the Keansburg Police Department, the Monmouth County Sheriff’s Office, and local faith-based community organizations.
Monmouth County residents can bring their unloaded guns on Friday to the Shiloh Community Fellowship Ministry in Asbury Park -- 142 Dewitt Ave. -- and at a public building on Carr Avenue -- 179 Carr Ave. -- near the Saint Ann Catholic Church in Keansburg, according to a release from the Attorney General's Office.
On Saturday, the buyback will take place at Saint Ann Catholic Church in Keansburg, 267 Carr Ave., and again at Shiloh Community Fellowship Church in Asbury Park. The locations will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., the release says.
Police officers will be stationed at the two churches to collect and secure the guns, the release says.
For more information, call the Attorney General’s Citizen Services unit at (609) 984-5828 or visit www.nj.gov/guns.
Realist
8:51 am on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
I'm sure all those criminals in the county will turn in their guns... the drug gangs from lakewood, neptune and Asbury. They obviously will be concerned with getting their guns off the street. And the owners with mental illness will line up behind them to turn theirs in. Pardon the sarcasm. While gun buybacks do allow people to get rid of guns they no longer need or want, it does nothing for the criminally inclined. We aren't fixing the real problems, just doing things. More people were killed by hammers in 2011 than assault weapons. Hopefully the gun buy back will remove some weapons, but belief it will really change the underlying problems of society with guns is naive.
BOHICA
11:38 am on Thursday, March 7, 2013
AMEN... and who's to say or what guarantee is to be made that the money recieved won't be used to purchase "new" guns???? instead of a buy back it becomes a gun exchange at gov. expense! and OBTW where is all the money coming from for the buy-back????