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Buyback program offers $200 per gun on Saturday

In a bid to get guns off streets, a Freeport church will open its doors Saturday to accept illegal handguns in exchange for $200 in cash, law enforcement and elected officials announced Tuesday.

The gun buyback program - a partnership of clergy, the Nassau County district attorney's office and police - is anonymous. "No questions asked, no identity given, no cameras, no recordings," said...

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