St. Albans<\/a> she hosted in partnership with New York Attorney General Letitia James and the NYPD.<\/p>\nThe event was completely anonymous, with no identification required and no questions asked.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cGun buybacks serve as a critical tool for reducing gun violence and promoting public safety within our communities,\u201d Katz said. \u201cThis Saturday, working in partnership with the NYPD, Attorney General Letitia James and Rev. Dr. Frankco J. Harris, we received 124 surrendered guns, including 10 automatic weapons \u2014 a record-breaking total for this office. As a result, these firearms will not be used for harm in our neighborhoods.\u201d<\/p>\n
The guns turned in included 49 pistols, 44 revolvers, 5 derringers, 5 rifles, one shotgun and the ten assault weapons. Ten imitation weapons, such as BB guns or air guns, were turned in.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery gun removed from Queens on Saturday is a step in the right direction to protect families and community members from gun violence,\u201d James said, thanking the DA\u2019s office and the NYPD for their commitment to being a part of the solution against gun violence. \u201cWe will continue to empower New Yorkers to turn in unwanted firearms to keep their neighbors safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
The buyback served as the 12th such event of the DA\u2019s administration and marked the largest collection of guns to date. A total of 741 firearms have been recovered since 2020.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cMy office has hosted a dozen such programs and each one has been effective in helping reduce crime and making our neighborhoods safer,\u201d Katz said. \u201cI thank our partners and members of the public for yet another successful event.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz shows off the 124 firearms that were surrenders at a gun buyback she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2303,51819,51820,51821,9,24,63,103,122,5193,124,123,53840],"class_list":["post-123171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-attorney-general-letitia-james","tag-gun-buyback","tag-gun-buyback-event","tag-mount-olivet-baptist-church","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-queens","tag-queens-district-attorney-melinda-katz","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-rev-dr-frankco-j-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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