Wednesday, February 20, 2013

ESSEX COUNTY GUN BUYBACK NETS 1,700

NJ.com reports:


NEWARK — One gun was disguised as a pen, delivered by an anxious mother afraid her young sons might find it and accidentally hurt themselves.

Another was brought in by a divorcee who said she didn’t want her ex-husband owning a firearm. A third gun came from a woman who found it tucked away in her laundry room — a place her child could easily find it — just days after her husband promised to dispose of the weapon.

Each of the 1,770 guns turned in during a two-day buyback in Essex County last weekend had a story and Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa wanted to make sure none of those tales ended in tragedy.


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