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Philly buyback events have yielded 1,000 guns in the last three years. None had been used in crimesIn 2021, as shootings and gun sales rose to unprecedented levels, many residents turned their firearms over to the city’s Police Department, data show.
During 16 gun-buyback events, 558 handguns and 188 long guns were turned in. Yet of the more than 1,000 weapons turned in over the last three years, not a single one has been linked to a crime. Experts on the issue say the lackluster statistics show the events are not effective in reducing crime. Joe Giacalone, a former New York Police Department sergeant-turned-CUNY criminology professor, called buyback events “political theater.
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