{"id":6186,"date":"2022-09-15T13:05:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=6186"},"modified":"2022-09-15T13:05:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:05:52","slug":"a-gun-buy-back-program-at-the-fdca-brings-in-hundreds-of-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/15\/a-gun-buy-back-program-at-the-fdca-brings-in-hundreds-of-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"A \u201cGun Buy Back\u201d Program at the FDCA Brings in Hundreds of Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prosecutor Julie Bates, Steve Papademous and members of the Black Teamsters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Dawn Scotland<\/strong><\/em>
\nThe Truth Reporter<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A \u2018Gun Buy Back\u2019 event was held at the Frederick Douglass Community Association Saturday afternoon, September 10. The event was a partnership with the Lucas County Prosecutor’s Office, Black Teamsters, Toledo Police Department, the City of Toledo and Frederick Douglass Community Association in a continued effort to get guns off of the street.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of gun owners lined up outside of the FDCA on Saturday to sell their firearms.\u00a0 The event, like other Buy Backs of this kind, was anonymous for the sellers. Each person received gas gift cards in exchange for their firearms.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw this [event] happening in Sacramento and it was very successful,\u201d said Steve Papodemous, first assistant to Lucas County Prosecutor, \u201cThey sold out in 45 minutes and we thought let\u2019s do it here [in Toledo].\u201d<\/p>\n

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Toledo Police Department checks firearms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe thought, let\u2019s take what we can off the street by way of firearms\u2026 If we can prevent one death, one suicide, one accident, one murder \u2013 then it\u2019s a success. If just one\u2026.If it is successful and we sell out of our [gift cards], we\u2019ll have another one,\u201d said Papodemous.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir grandchild will never get the gun and have an accident with the gun,\u201d stated Julie Bates, Lucas County Prosecutor. \u201cTheir son will never\u00a0commit suicide in the bedroom with the gun, nobody will come break in the house steal the gun a shoot their neighbor,\u201d added Bates. \u201cAll good outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recipients received $100 for handguns, $200 for a longguns and $250 for a semi-automatic gun in gas gift cards. Papopdemous said that there are no tax dollars being used for the program and that the effort is solely funded by criminal forfeiture funds.<\/p>\n

Reggie Williams, executive director of the FDCA, which hosts an office for the Violence Interrupters through Mayor Kapszukiewicz Save Our Community Program, commented\u2026 \u201cwe were looking at how can we partner and collaborate on how to impact the city in regards to violence and take guns off the street\u2026 it just made sense\u2026since we have them here [the<\/p>\n

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Officers at the Doug helping with Gun Buy Back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Violence Interrupters] in the building why not continue to build off that have people who are comfortable with the Doug and know the Doug come here to Buy their Gun back.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lucas County Prosecutors office\u00a0hopes to have more across the city in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Dawn Scotland The Truth Reporter A \u2018Gun Buy Back\u2019 event was held at the Frederick Douglass Community Association Saturday afternoon, September 10. The event was a partnership with the Lucas County Prosecutor’s Office, Black Teamsters, Toledo Police Department, the City of Toledo and Frederick Douglass Community Association in a continued effort to get guns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[139],"class_list":["post-6186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6190,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions\/6190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6186"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=6186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}