Posted on 06/06/2010 11:32:36 AM PDT by ulster
There was an overwhelming response to the Austin Police Department's first ever "Guns for Groceries" event.
Hundreds of people turned out Saturday to exchange unwanted guns for vouchers to buy groceries.
"The line is very shocking to me. We had people in the parking lot at 7:30 a.m. waiting to turn their guns in, and the event did not start until 9 a.m," APD's Sgt. Ely Reyes said.
Department officials ran out of grocery vouchers after about two and a half hours.
APD asked the community to turn in any gun, no questions asked. In exchange, people got anywhere from $10 to $200 in grocery store gift cards.
"People like me who don't use them, haven
(Excerpt) Read more at news8austin.com ...
They took 320 gun “off the streets”?
Over 1 million NICS checks were done last August alone.
Darn, If I had known about it, I could have grabbed some cash and gone over there to see if there was anything interesting in line...
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