Crime & Safety
Saturday is Final Day of Gun Buyback Program
Residents can turn in up to three firearms and receive up to $250 per weapon.
Saturday is the second and final day county residents can turn in firearms at special buyback program.
Residents can turn in firearms anonymously and with no questions asked Saturday between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. at the Gilmore Memorial Tabernacle Church in Paterson and St. Anthony of Padua R.C. Church in Passaic.
Up to three firearms of any type may be turned in. Participants can receive up to $250 per weapon, depending on the type of gun and its condition.
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Attorney General Office’s Division of Criminal Justice and the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office are sponsoring the program.
More than 9,000 firearms were turned in at five prior state-sponsored buyback initiatives held throughout New Jersey this year.
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Eighteen people were shot and killed in Passaic County in 2012.
Residents with questions about the program should call the attorney general’s Citizen Services Unit at 609-984-5828 or visit nj.gov/guns.
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