According to the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office, around 150 firearms were turned in at the Interfaith Gun Buyback event held Sunday, April 20 in Germantown.
The event was organized by the D.C. Area Interfaith Gun Violence Prevention Network (Interfaith GVP Network), in partnership with the Montgomery County Sheriff and State’s Attorney, and took place at the United Church of Christ of Seneca Valley (13421 Clopper Road) in Germantown.
Community members were able to anonymously turn in firearms in exchange for a $100 food store gift card for functioning handguns, rifles and shotguns and a $200 food store gift card for functioning military assault-style weapons and privately manufactured firearms (“ghost guns”). The firearms were accepted with no identification requested and a no-questions-asked policy by law enforcement.
