The Oakland Police Department, alongside nonprofit Guns to Gardens, hosted a gun buyback event on Saturday seeking to exchange the deadly weapons for gardening tools, A’s tickets, gift cards and other items in an effort to curb gun violence.
, hosted a gun buyback event on Saturday seeking to exchange the deadly weapons for gardening tools, A’s tickets, gift cards and other items in an effort to curb gun violence.
The guns recovered by the program will be made into metal gardening tools that Oaklanders can use to improve the city. Guns to Gardens is a national program that takes firearms and turns them into gardening tools, art, jewelry and other items. So far this year Guns to Gardens has hosted similar events in Albuquerque, Aurora, Colo., Columbus, Ohio, Madison, Wisc., and many other cities.
At a similar buyback event in Oakland last year, more than 130 firearms were collected and turned into gardening tools.
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