DENVER — Roughly 189 weapons, together with greater than 100 semi-automatic weapons, had been collected in the course of the first buyback hosted by the Denver Broncos and the nonprofit RAWtools on Saturday.
The initiative goals to get weapons off the streets of Denver and Aurora in 2022, melting them down to allow them to be become backyard instruments for neighborhood gardens.
“Plenty of the buyback causes are associated to the flexibility or entry to protected storage, or they may have youngsters which are getting older they usually really feel extra uncomfortable with a firearm in the home,” stated Mike Martin, founding father of RAWtools. “You’re thrice extra seemingly for a gun for use towards you or somebody you like within the dwelling than it’s towards an intruder. So it actually makes dwelling safer to cut back the variety of firearms in your house.”
The Denver Broncos and RAWtools have buyback occasions deliberate in Denver and Aurora every month by October of this 12 months. The subsequent occasion might be on Saturday, April 9, 2022, in Aurora.
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