DA Katz and NYPD take 32 Guns off the Streets at Buybacks Event

(South Asian Insider Bureau) Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz and the New York Police Department announced that 32 guns were collected today at the Church of God Christian Academy in Far Rockaway, Queens. The gun buyback events seek to curb gun violence and the destruction it causes by accepting working unloaded firearms - with no questions asked - in exchange for compensation. Today’s event was co-sponsored by the NYPD, Congressman Gregory W. Meeks, Office of the State Attorney General Letitia James, City Council Majority Whip Selvena Brooks-Powers, Church of God Christian Academy, First Church of God and Food Baazar Supermarket. District Attorney Katz said: “Gun violence will never become the norm in our communities, and we will continue to make every determined effort to rid our streets of this plague.