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LAPD's holds gun buyback program today
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Dec 26, 2012
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LAPD's holds gun buyback program today
It's been nearly two weeks since the shooting in Newtown, Conn., and while December gun sales are at record highs across the U.S., the LAPD is urging people to turn their firearms in.
The LAPD holds a gun buyback program on Dec. 26, 2012.
The LAPD holds a gun buyback program on Dec. 26, 2012.
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The LAPD holds a gun buyback program on Dec. 26, 2012.
The LAPD holds a gun buyback program on Dec. 26, 2012.
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Erika Aguilar/KPCC
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The LAPD holds a gun buyback program on Dec. 26, 2012.
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Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief Charles Beck shows Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa hand guns which were turned into police custody as part of a Mother's Day gun buyback program, at police headquarters in Los Angeles, California on May 11, 2009. More than 1,600 firearms were voluntarily surrendered to police custody over a five-hour period May 9, 2009 in the one-day gun buyback program in which citizens who turned in a handgun, shotgun or rifle received a USD100 voucher for a local supermarket while people who turned in higher caliber assault weapons such as a AK-47, Uzi or AR-15 received a voucher worth USD200. The gun buyback program is a component of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's 2009 gang plan to reduce gun violence. At left is city councilmember Jack Weiss and at right is the mayor's anti-gang czar Rev. Jeff Carr.
Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief Charles Beck shows Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa hand guns which were turned into police custody as part of a Mother's Day gun buyback program, at police headquarters in Los Angeles, California on May 11, 2009.
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It's been nearly two weeks since the shooting in Newtown, Conn., and while December gun sales are at record highs across the U.S., the LAPD is urging people to turn their firearms in.

It's been nearly two weeks since the shooting in Newtown, Conn., and while December gun sales are at record highs across the U.S., the LAPD is urging people to turn their firearms in.

They've moved up their annual gun buyback event from its usual spring date to today, in response to the Newtown tragedy.

KPCC's Erica Aguilar is at the buyback site, where they started taking guns about 20 minutes ago.