Residents will be able to exchange firearms for $100 gift certificates.
The location of Saturday’s "Goods for Guns" program has been changed. Residents will now be able to exchange unwanted firearms for $100 Klein's ShopRite gift certificates; no questions asked, at St. Paul Baptist Church, 3101 The Alameda. Initially the exchange was supposed to take place at the Coldstream Homestead Montebello Association’s offices on City College campus. City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young announced the program at City Hall on Wednesday.
Residents may turn in guns for a $100 certificate no questions asked.
A new Baltimore City program is offering $100 gift certificate to Klein’s ShopRite in exchange for guns, no questions asked. City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young announced the new program on Wednesday morning. Residents will be able to exchange the firearms in exchange for certificates between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Saturday at the Coldstream Homestead Montebello Community Corporation’s headquarters on the campus of City College High School, according to a news release. "We have made tremendous strides in reducing gun-related crimes in Baltimore, but we still have a long way to go," Young said in the release. "This new partnership between my office and Klein’s ShopRite is a great example of a public-private partnership helping to …
Jake S
10:04 am on Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Yes, the police treat the weapons as "recovered firearms": they check the serial numbers against the database of stolen guns, and they run ballistics checks to see if the gun matches bullets/cartridges recovered at crime scenes. This is a good program. It gives people who don't WANT their guns a safe way of making sure the gun will never, ever be used to hurt someone; it is far more morally … more ›