Essex County To Host Gun Buy-Back
Local police support program, which will be held in Montclair in February.
Verona police officials have praised plans by neighboring Montclair to team up with Essex County and get guns off the street. Montclair and Essex County will be holding a gun buy-back in February where anyone can exchange their guns for cash. The gun buy-back was announced last month soon after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that left 20 children and seven adults dead in Newtown, Conn. “The key to the gun buy-back is that they accept weapons unasked,” said Verona Police Capt. Mitchell Stern. “It's anonymous, so no one knows why the gun was turned in.” “I think anything that would take any illegal weapons off the street is a good idea,” he said. In the last five years, 447 Verona residents have applied for a pistol permit or …
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