Help The City Drop Violent Crime
The NYPD Community Affairs Bureau is reminding all citizens about a program to take guns off the streets and to make the city a safer place.
The Cash for Guns Program is a program in which the NYPD will pay $100 to any individual (excluding active law enforcement personnel and gun dealers) who present any handgun that is in apparent operative condition to any police precinct, transit district or housing police service area (PSA).
To date over 6,000 deadly firearms have been surrendered since the program’s inception.
Qualifying weapons include: revolvers, semiautomatic and automatic pistols, sawed-off shotguns, or assault weapons. Weapons that do not qualify will be taken under the Cash for Guns Program, but will not qualify for the cash payment.
An individual may surrender more than three weapons, but cash reimbursement will only be made for a maximum of a total of three weapons.
Any individual turning in a qualifying weapon may do so at any police precinct, transit district or housing PSA, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. No questions asked and no identification will be required, as the identity of all individuals will remain anonymous. While weapons may be surrendered at any of the above locations, cash payments will be made only from the following Patrol Borough Cash for Guns central locations, including:
– the 90th Precinct (Patrol Borough Brooklyn North), 211 Union Ave., Williamsburg;
– the 107th Precinct (Patrol Borough Queens South), 71-01 Parsons Blvd., Flushing; and
– the 112th Precinct (Patrol Borough
Queens North), 68-40 Austin St., Forest Hills.
For more information on this, or any of the other programs the NYPD offers as part of its ongoing mission of “Police and Community Working Together,” call the NYPD Community Affairs Bureau at 1-646-610- 5323, or visit them online at www.nypdcommunityaffairs.org.
