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Nassau authorities take 173 illegal guns off the streets

A gun buyback program run by the Nassau County police department and the Nassau district attorney's office Saturday at a church in Rockville Centre was responsible for taking 173 illegal but operable handguns off the streets, police said.

"That's 173 weapons out of our homes, away from our children and off the streets of Rockville Centre," Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice said in a prepared...

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