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Los Angeles Trades Guns for Food

By Steven Rodriguez

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Los Angeles residents have turned in a record number of guns this year in the area’s annual Gifts for Guns exchange. Residents hard hit by the economy and unemployment are pulling firearms out from under their beds and the backs of closets and turning them in for food and other necessary staples. In the annual program, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’’s Department allows residents to anonymously relinquish firearms in exchange for $100 gift cards for Ralph’s supermarkets, Target or Best Buy. Turning in an assault rifle doubles your gift. Operating in several major U.S. metropolitan areas, gun exchange programs like the one in L.A. were initiated to pull guns off the streets and decrease gun and gang violence in volatile urban areas...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on December 10, 2008 (boomark / email).

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