Dallas gun buyback program nets 147 firearms

by PegNews wire

... and doles out $7,350 in grocery store gift cards.

Pegnews content partner Dallas Progress made us aware of some issues surrounding the City of Dallas-sponsored gun buyback program scheduled for Saturday (Feb. 28).

Looks like the volume of takers surprised everyone, with 147 various firearms being collected over the course of the day in exchange for an equal number of $50 grocery store gift cards.

Several gun traders expressed the feeling that their lives would now be safer thanks to the absence of a weapon that could potentially be either stolen from their home and used against an innocent, or handled by resident children and accidentally discharged.

Unsurprisingly, no one was on hand to advocate for the self-defense, family-protection-through-firepower argument. (Or if they were, they were keeping quiet.)

posted by JM