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Guns for groceries

Your gun for groceries.

That's the goal of a gun buyback from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at Reunion Arena. Each unloaded, operational firearm surrendered will fetch a $50 Kroger grocery gift card.

People trading in their guns must present identification, city officials say.

"It would be a failure on our part if we do not take an initiative," said Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway, who is helping lead the effort.

Dallas is not using public money to purchase the gift cards. Kroger is providing them at a 30 percent discount to several event sponsors, Dallas spokesman Frank Librio said.

Meanwhile, Dallas writer and gun rights advocate Trey Garrison says he may conduct an alternative gun buyback of his own – with better prices for sellers. He says he'll pay in cash, too.

How much might Garrison spend?

"Depends on what the hardware is," he said Wednesday.

PBR wrote:lol -- thats a good one -- i wonder if they will be checking how many are stolen -- lol

They will be checking the for stolen guns.

They did this just recently in another state and had 3700+ handguns and rifles turned-in in about 4 hours.
Out of the 3700+ items only 17 came back stolen.

There were all functioning weapons and a few handgrenades.

There were more than 1100+ AR-15 / AK types, some valued at thousands a piece.


Here's the info for tommorow. http://dallascityhall.org/pdf/police/GunBuyBack.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Anyone going to the Gun buy back program tommorow. They are giving $50 grocery cards for each gun turned in.

Wouldnt this be a good place to go get some cheap guns before they are turned in? City's paying $50 per and i'd pay $60 per.