Residents brought hundreds of unwanted firearms to a gun buyback event held by the city of San Rafael on Saturday, getting them off the streets after the nation was rocked by the school shooting in Texas.
The event kept to the no-questions-asked approach that gun buybacks typically adhere to in the case of an illegal weapon. Of the firearms turned in at the event, seven were marked as illegal due to modification of shortened barrels or stocks, four were ghost guns containing no serial numbers, and two weapons had their serial numbers filed off.
Cash incentives are a useful tactic in convincing residents to give up their firearms, with some police departments even offering gas money in exchange for unused and unwanted guns. "The fact that so many of them were turned in voluntarily, it's a good thing" Fink said."For people with guns in their home that don't want them, it's not that easy -- if you're gonna sell them, you don't know who's going to end up with it."
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