Atlanta Police paying up to $100 to buy back guns and get them off the street

ATLANTA — The Atlanta police department wants to get guns off the street so they are having a gun buyback this Saturday.

It’s part of mayor Andre Dickens’ One Safe City program.

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Atlanta’s interim police chief Darin Schierbaum spoke about the effort on Thursday.

“This is certainly with children present we’ve had approximately 26 occurrences of people being injured from discharge of a weapon they’ve been handling and five of those are children.”

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The gun buyback will be at the Atlanta Civic Center parking lot on Piedmont Avenue on Saturday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

The city will pay $50 for handguns and $100 for long guns.

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