Gun buyback in L.A.
LAPD Deputy Chief Charlie Beck, left, and L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at a news conference today at Parker Center inspecting some of the nearly 1,700 weapons turned in to Los Angeles police on Saturday in exchange for supermarket gift cards. The gun buyback effort handed out 1,302 gift cards for weapons, worth a total of $30,200 to participants. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
LAPD Lt. Fred Booker, right, wields a 12-gauge street-sweeper shotgun as Deputy Chief Charlie Beck looks on at today’s news conference at Parker Center, where some of the nearly 1,700 weapons exchanged for supermarket gift cards were on display. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Some of the weapons turned in Saturday included a rifle with an NRA sticker on the gunstock. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
Rifles collected during Saturday’s daylong weapons-for-gift cards event were piled on display for today’s news conference at Parker Center in Los Angeles. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
At today’s news conference, some of the more than 800 handguns collected on Saturday. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
The weapons collected were categorized and tagged by the Los Angeles Police Department. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)
