State Gun Buyback Program Coming To Monmouth County
State Attorney General says up to $250 paid for guns turned in on March 8, 9
In attempt to get illegal guns off the streets and cut into gun violence, the Attorney General’s Office is staging a state-sponsored gun buyback to be held in Monmouth County early next month, officials said Thursday. State Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa was in Asbury Park Thursday to announce the March 8 and 9 program would be held 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 turn in up to three unloaded guns at the Shiloh Community Fellowship Ministry in Asbury Park – 142 Dewitt Ave. -- or the St. Ann Catholic Church in Keansburg – 267 …
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Dame Bridgid
4:37 pm on Saturday, February 23, 2013
Congratulations for giving criminals an incentive to steal more weapons for pocket money. Will law abiding citizens with legal permits get their stolen weapons back from the police after this buy back? If not; they are acting as accomplices to that theft, by not returning the stolen item to the rightful owner. After all; if it was a car it would be returned. more ›