Word: buyback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Attorney General James Doyle boasts that more than 560 convicted felons have already been foiled from legally purchasing a weapon. In 1991, after a bitter debate, Milwaukee approved a seven-day waiting period to purchase handguns, and last month the city council set aside $50,000 for a gun buyback program proposed by Police Chief Philip Arreola, whose officers visit schools to hand out gun- safety comic books featuring Molly Magnum and Shorty Shotgun...
...home makes it five times as likely that someone in the household will commit suicide, and three times as likely that someone will be murdered. Salt Lake City Mayor DeeDee Corradini recalls a young mother she met during Salt Lake City's gun amnesty and buyback program: "A mother with four young children in tow came. She said, 'This gun has been used once. My husband committed suicide with it. Take...
...DADS sponsored two gun-buyback programs last winter, offering up to $50 for a working weapon, with no questions asked. On both days, they ran out of money within half an hour. Total haul: 588 guns, some turned in by juveniles. "It amazed me," says C.R. Bell, president of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce. In May MAD DADS staged another buyback after sending 100,000 flyers to nine school districts. The take: 1,124 guns, which will be welded into a monument by a local artist. Among them was Doug's 12-gauge shotgun. "I figured...