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Maya Yang in New York

New York gun buyback program takes thousands of firearms off the street

A table loaded up with long rifles.
Ninety firearms were turned in during a three-hour period in Brooklyn. Photograph: Yuki Iwamura/AFP/Getty Images

Thousands of guns were surrendered across New York on Saturday in exchange for gift cards as part of the state’s gun buyback program.

According to the New York attorney general, Letitia James, whose office organized the event, more than 3,000 guns including various assault-style rifles and “ghost guns” were given up in what she hailed as a “landmark event”.

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