BOSTON - (06/28/06) As many as 400 street-toughs togun collectors traded in their firearms at their local policestation over the past month for a $200 gift card to Targets underthe Boston Polices gun buyback program, aimed at curbingstreet violence. Boston CU stepped in with a $5,000 donation as theprogram was running out of money. The Mark Wahlberg YouthFoundation also kicked in $10,000. Among the guns handed in so farare: Ruger .22 calibr rassault rifle; a Civil War replicablack-powder revolver; and a Walter PPK, the preferred gun forJames Bond. Most of the guns were handed in by young men, but agrandmother turned in two pieces she found in her grandsonsroom.
Boston CU Helps Buy BackGuns
June 28, 2006, 1:00 a.m. EDT
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