Cash for Guns Offered at County Event

Have a firearm you don’t want anymore? Need a little extra cash?

The Burlington County Sheriff’s Department will hold a gun buyback event from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 13, at the Abundant Life Fellowship Church, located at 4151 Route 130 South in Edgewater Park.

“Every gun we get off the street is one less opportunity for a child to be harmed, an accidental shooting to occur, or a weapon to be stolen and used in a crime,” said Sheriff Jean Stanfield.

The buyback will allow Burlington County residents to voluntarily surrender their firearms in exchange for up to $150 per weapon. Each resident may anonymously turn in up to three guns, no questions asked.

“Our hope is that this initiative will cause people to weigh their true need to possess a firearm against the opportunity to use the money they receive to benefit themselves or their family,” said Burlington County Prosecutor Robert D. Bernardi.

The program is sponsored by Stanfield, Bernardi and New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa. Community groups such as the Abundant Life Fellowship Church, Stop Drop Your Gun, Inc., and Servicios Latinos de Burlington County, Inc. have assisted in making the event possible.

“We recognize that these buybacks aren’t a singular, one-stop solution to the gun violence problem. However, they are important because, as we all recognize, there are just too many firearms circulating out there and too many innocent people dying or being critically wounded as a result,” said Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa.

Check out this story about statewide gun buyback statistics since the Sandy Hook shooting. 

For more information about Burlington County's gun buyback program, visit the county website at www.co.burlington.nj.us  or call 609-265-5128.

Information provided by the Burlington County Sheriff’s Department