{"id":1921899,"date":"2023-05-01T04:41:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T08:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/guns-for-gift-cards-new-yorkers-surrendered-3000-firearms-to-state-gov-for-cash\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T04:43:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T08:43:58","slug":"guns-for-gift-cards-new-yorkers-surrendered-3000-firearms-to-state-gov-for-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/guns-for-gift-cards-new-yorkers-surrendered-3000-firearms-to-state-gov-for-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns For Gift Cards: New Yorkers Surrendered 3,000 Firearms To State Gov. For Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fguns-for-gift-cards-new-yorkers-surrendered-3000-firearms-to-state-gov-for-cash%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1921899&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>New Yorkers Turn in Thousands of Firearms in Exchange for Gift Cards<\/h2>\n<p>Last weekend, New Yorkers participated in a statewide, no<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/guns-for-gift-cards-new-yorkers-surrendered-3000-firearms-to-state-gov-for-cash\/\" title=\"Guns For Gift Cards: New Yorkers Surrendered 3,000 Firearms To State Gov. For Cash\">-questions-asked \u201clandmark event\u201d coordinated<\/a> by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fncs-dean-msm-coverage-of-cuomo-was-puff-pieces-while-there-were-bodybags-piling-up\/\" title=\"FNC's Dean: MSM Coverage of Cuomo Was 'Puff Pieces' While 'There Were Bodybags Piling up'\">attorney general\u2019<\/a>s office, surrendering thousands of firearms in exchange for gift cards ranging from $25 to $500. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/3000-guns-surrendered-new-york-day-exchange-gift\/story?id=98967589\">ABC News<\/a>, officials collected more than 3,000 guns at nine buyback locations throughout the state. <\/p>\n<h3>Gift Cards for Guns<\/h3>\n<p>New York State Attorney General Letitia James said that gun owners who turned in their firearms were awarded $500 gift cards for turning in rifles, handguns, and untraceable \u201cghost guns.\u201d Additional handguns surrendered received an extra $150 gift card. Participants also received $25 and $75 cards for non-working, antique, or 3D-printed replica rifles and shotguns.<\/p>\n<h3>Protecting Communities<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cGun violence has caused so many avoidable tragedies and robbed us of so many innocent New Yorkers,\u201d James said in a news release. \u201cEvery gun that we removed out of Syracuse homes and off the streets is a potential tragedy averted and another step in protecting communities throughout New York state.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns Over Gun Ownership<\/h3>\n<p>At a news conference, Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh of the Independence Party of New York blamed the rise in crime on gun ownership expansion, condemning federal and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/governors-sign-consider-legislation-to-protect-womens-sports\/\" title=\"Governors sign, consider legislation to protect women\u2019s sports\">state officials nationwide<\/a> for \u201cabdicating their responsibility\u201d to sell and handle firearms safely. \u201cThere are too many damn guns in this country. They\u2019re everywhere. And we have too many states that are abdicating their responsibility to ensure that guns are being sold safely,\u201d Walsh said at the news conference. \u201cAnd our federal government is abdicating their responsibility to ensure that guns are being handled safely.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Successful Buyback Programs<\/h3>\n<p>Gun buyback programs have been popular in cities across America since the 1970s, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/blogs\/stateline\/2022\/08\/30\/gun-buybacks-are-popular-but-are-they-effective\">Pew Research<\/a>. While some may question their effectiveness, the recent buyback event in New York State was successful in collecting thousands of firearms and potentially preventing future tragedies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorkers surrendered thousands of firearms to the State over the weekend in exchange for gift cards ranging from $25 to $500 at a statewide, no-questions-asked \u201clandmark event\u201d coordinated by the attorney general\u2019s office. New York State Attorney General Letitia James said officials collected more than 3,000 guns at nine buyback locations throughout the state<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1921900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[11223,3674,4119,9473,6923,8338,4204,25506,11771],"class_list":["post-1921899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-11223","tag-cards","tag-cash","tag-firearms","tag-gift","tag-gov","tag-guns","tag-surrendered","tag-yorkers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1921900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}