The buyback event was part of Mayor Turner's One Safe Houston initiative to combat violent crime in the Houston area.
People waited in line for hours to take part in a 'no questions asked' gun buyback program in Third Ward Saturday morning.SEE PREVIOUS STORY:"After Uvalde, he and I both decided we needed to have at least one gun buyback before our children go back to school," said Harris County Pct. 1 Commissioner Rodney Ellis.
"I don't use them. I don't want them, and I didn't want anybody breaking into my garage and stealing them and have them go to bad use," Gibson said."They drive down the street behind our house and just 'bang, bang, bang, bang' into the air. It's ridiculous," Gibson said. "We've taken in ghost guns. We've taken in rifles. Automatics have been taken in, and so the program is working," Turner said.
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