Residents Exchange Guns For Gift Cards

Program Aimed At Keeping Unwanted Guns From Criminals

POSTED: 5:50 pm PST December 20, 2010
UPDATED: 7:11 pm PST December 20, 2010

SAN DIEGO -- More than 160 guns were off San Diego streets in a matter of hours on Monday as part of an annual program aimed at keeping unwanted guns from falling into the hands of criminals.

 

The third annual gun-exchange program, sponsored by the United African-American Ministerial Action Council and the San Diego Police Department, took place from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday at UAAMAC headquarters on Market Street in Lincoln Park.