Got Guns? Swap 'Em For Walmart Gift Cards

If you’ve got an unwanted gun and could use some quick and easy spending power, you’re in luck.

Law enforcement personnel will conduct a five-hour “gun exchange’’ today in Otay Mesa, trading Walmart gift cards for firearms in working condition, no questions asked.

The program, part of community efforts to decrease local gun violence, offers the shopping equivalent of $50 for handguns, $75 for standard rifles and shotguns, and $100 for assault rifles. Participants are asked to arrive with
their firearms unloaded and placed in the trunks or rear cargo areas of their vehicles. Officers will remove them.

Explosives and ammunition will not be accepted.

All collected firearms will be destroyed, said Carlos Lacarra, a community-relations officer with the San Diego Police Department.

The event -- a joint project of the SDPD, the county District Attorney’s Office and the community-development agency Casa Familiar -- will take place at Southwestern College Higher Education Center, off Airway Road.

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--City News Service