More guns than buyback money
Hundreds of guns were set to be melted down following an Oakland gun buyback held hours after two more people died in a shooting in the violence-plagued city.
The Saturday event, organized by state Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata (D-Oakland), had enough funding to take in 300 guns for $250 apiece but ran out as people arrived to turn in trunkloads of weapons.
Oakland police issued vouchers for guns given up after the fund was depleted.
Earlier, two men were fatally shot outside a house in East Oakland, the southeastern part of the city, bringing the city’s homicide total this year to 16. Police say they have no motives or suspects in the killings of Juan Barnes, 34, of Hayward and Alphonso Lawson, 38, of Oakland.
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