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Queens DA Melinda Katz and the NYPD are hosting a gun buyback event in Jamaica on Saturday, Oct. 24, where residents can exchange firearms for bank cards with no questions asked. <\/p>\n
Photo courtesy of DA\u2019s office<\/p>\n
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Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz<\/a> is sponsoring a gun buyback event with the NYPD in Jamaica<\/a> on Saturday, Oct. 24, as part of an ongoing effort to reduce gun violence and strengthen public safety across the borough. The event will be held at Majority Baptist Church<\/a> located at 115-21 Farmers Blvd. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with no questions asked.<\/p>\n Residents can exchange firearms for bank cards, and they can surrender as many guns as they wish but the payment limit is two ghost guns or three firearms per person. A $500 bank card will be exchanged for an operable handgun or assault rifle; a $200 bank card will be exchanged for an operable ghost gun or 3D-printed gun. A $75 bank card will be exchanged for an operable rifle or shotgun, and $25 bank cards will be exchanged for air guns, non-operable handguns and imitation pistols.<\/p>\n All guns must be placed in a plastic or paper bag, or in a shoe box. If transporting by car, guns must be in the trunk. Cash-card payment is on-site, after each firearm has been screened and deemed operable.<\/p>\n Guns owned by active or retired law enforcement officers of licensed gun dealers will not be accepted. All persons and packages are subject to security screening upon entering Majority Baptist Church on Saturday. To request a reasonable accommodation for this event, contact dsf@queensda.org<\/a> or call 718-286-6508 to discuss your needs. Call 311 for more information regarding the program.<\/p>\n The Queens DA\u2019s office has held 13-gun buyback events that have recovered 849 firearms since 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens DA Melinda Katz and the NYPD are hosting a gun buyback event in Jamaica on Saturday, Oct.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-378075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378075","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=378075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"This](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/queens-da-jamaica-gun-buyback02.webp\")
This will mark the 14th gun buyback event during the Katz administration. The program has removed 849 firearms from Queens communities since 2020.Photo courtesy of DA\u2019s office<\/p>\n