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Mexico City Running Gun Buyback Program

Mexico City is sponsoring a program offering cash, toys and computer equipment in exchange for guns in a rough neighborhood where a 10-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet as he sat inside a movie theater. 

The program in the borough of Iztapalapa is dubbed 'For Your Family: Voluntary Disarmament.'
Borough president Jesus Valencia wrote in his Twitter account Monday that residents had turned in 27 rifles and 65 pistols.

h/t sarcasmic

Source: Daily Mail. Read full article. (link)

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