Guns collected from the gun buyback event at the Midtown Tucson Police Department on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 in Tucson, Ariz. TPD collected 206 guns.
  • Noelle Haro-Gomez
  • Guns collected from the gun buyback event at the Midtown Tucson Police Department on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 in Tucson, Ariz. TPD collected 206 guns.
Officer Eric Coutts is checking the serial number on the rifle at the gun buyback event at the Midtown Tucson Police Department Substation on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2012 in Tucson, Ariz.
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  • Officer Eric Coutts is checking the serial number on the rifle at the gub buyback event at the Midtown Tucson Police Department Substation on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2012 in Tucson, Ariz.
Tucson police check the serial numbers of guns at the Midtown Tucson Police Department Substation, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2012 during a gun buyback event.
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  • Tucson police check the serial numbers of guns at the Midtown Tucson Police Department Substation, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2012 during a gun buyback event.
Guns collected from the buyback event held at the Midtown Tucson Police Department Substation on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 in Tucson, Ariz.
  • Noelle Haro-Gomez
  • Guns collected from the buyback event held at the Midtown Tucson Police Department Substation on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 in Tucson, Ariz.
Nicole Sanford, left and Brian Sanford holding signs in opposition to the gun buyback event at the Midtown Tucson Police Department Substation in Tucson, Ariz. on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013.
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  • Nicole Sanford, left and Brian Sanford holding signs in opposition to the gun buyback event at the Midtown Tucson Police Department Substation in Tucson, Ariz. on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013.
A sign on a car belonging to a private citizen participating in the counter-buyback organized, in part, by former State Sen. Frank Antenori, at the Midtown Tucson Police Department Substation in Tucson, Ariz. on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013.
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  • A sign on a car belonging to a private citizen participating in the counter-buyback organized, in part, by former State Sen. Frank Antenori, at the Midtown Tucson Police Department Substation in Tucson, Ariz. on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013.

This article appears in Jan 3-9, 2013.

9 replies on “Steel for Cash: A Look at the Jan. 8 Gun Buybacks”

  2. Criminals don’t abide by the law…………..

    When the Constitution is attacked the offenders should be charged with Treason…………

  4. Stupid is what stupid does!! May those that turned in firearms be the first to face tryanny!These idiots have no idea what is going on. Freedom or slavery, guess they made their choice.

  5. The handguns were definitely junk. Not so sure about the long guns. I wonder if TPD would destroy a class side-by-side double gun, the kind hat’s used for quail hunting but almost never for homicides.

  6. jon justice FB contributor was at the buyback said no assault weapons bought back and the handguns were broken – the police REFUSED to buy the weapons without serial numbers on them ha ha like wouldn’t those be the ones you would WANT??? Wont get my ruger Revolution2013 fight like it is 1776

  7. What a better way for a crimnal to dispose of a murder weapon! No questions asked! The Tucson police department should be required to test all weapons bought against ballists records to see if they have been used in a crime, to include all cold cases!If they don’t then it only goes to show that they don’t care if a crime victim or victims famly members get justice!

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