Photos: Tucson Gun Buyback
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Gun owners waited in lines over an hour to relinquish their handguns and rifles in exchange for a $50 Safeway gift card at the Tucson Police Department Midtown Substation.
Officer Monica Vannorman, center, photographs a pistol as officer Merri Hughes, right, logs the relinquished weapons at a gun buyback event Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Tucson Police Department Midtown Substation in Tucson, Ariz.
- Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star
Officer Monica Vannorman, center, photographs a pistol as officer Merri Hughes, right, logs the relinquished weapons at a gun buyback event Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Tucson Police Department Midtown Substation in Tucson, Ariz.
- Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star
Tucson police officers inspect handguns and rifles before they're disassembled at a gun buyback event Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Tucson Police Department Midtown Substation in Tucson, Ariz. In the background, interested parties offer larger sums of cash to purchase them on the spot. Gun owners waited in lines over an hour to relinquish their weapons in exchange for a $50 Safeway gift card.
- Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star
Officer Southard disassembles the .22 rifle and .410 shotgun of Michael Jarrold, right, and father Gary Jarrold, center, at a gun buyback event Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Tucson Police Department Midtown Substation in Tucson, Ariz. Gun owners waited in lines over an hour to relinquish their handguns and rifles in exchange for a $50 Safeway gift card.
- Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star
Former state senator Frank Antenori, left, listens as a man, who declined to be named, tries to sell a .22 Marlin Model 60 rifle at a counter-effort gun buyback event Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Tucson Police Department Midtown Substation in Tucson, Ariz.
- Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star
Former state senator Frank Antenori, center, talks with two men, wishing only to be identified as Tucson citizens, at Antenori's counter-effort gun buyback on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Tucson Police Department Midtown Substation in Tucson, Ariz.
- Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star
Christine Bauserman, a former campaign manager for former state senator Frank Antenori, starts to tear down a table set up for counter-effort gun buyback Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Tucson Police Department Midtown Substation.
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Officer Monica Vannorman, center, photographs a pistol as officer Merri Hughes, right, logs the relinquished weapons at a gun buyback event Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Tucson Police Department Midtown Substation in Tucson, Ariz.
- Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star
Officer Monica Vannorman, center, photographs a pistol as officer Merri Hughes, right, logs the relinquished weapons at a gun buyback event Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Tucson Police Department Midtown Substation in Tucson, Ariz.
- Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star 2013
Officer Michael Whitfield, right, hands back a disabled handgun so it can be logged at a gun buyback event Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Tucson Police Department Midtown Substation in Tucson, Ariz.
- Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star
Officer Monica Vannorman, center, photographs a pistol as officer Merri Hughes, right, logs the relinquished weapons at a gun buyback event Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Tucson Police Department Midtown Substation.
- Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star
Tucson police officers inspect handguns and rifles before they're disassembled at a gun buyback event Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Tucson Police Department Midtown Substation in Tucson, Ariz. In the background, interested parties offer larger sums of cash to purchase them on the spot. Gun owners waited in lines over an hour to relinquish their weapons in exchange for a $50 Safeway gift card.
- Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star
Officer Southard disassembles the .22 rifle and .410 shotgun of Michael Jarrold, right, and father Gary Jarrold, center, at a gun buyback event Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Tucson Police Department Midtown Substation in Tucson, Ariz. Gun owners waited in lines over an hour to relinquish their handguns and rifles in exchange for a $50 Safeway gift card.
- Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star
Officer Southard, left, shows gun owner Bill Phillips where he can take his disassembled .12-gauge shotgun at a gun buyback event Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Tucson Police Department Midtown Substation in Tucson, Ariz.
- Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star
Former state senator Frank Antenori, left, listens as a man, who declined to be named, tries to sell a .22 Marlin Model 60 rifle at a counter-effort gun buyback event Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Tucson Police Department Midtown Substation in Tucson, Ariz.
- Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star
Former state senator Frank Antenori, center, talks with two men, wishing only to be identified as Tucson citizens, at Antenori's counter-effort gun buyback on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Tucson Police Department Midtown Substation in Tucson, Ariz.
- Mike Christy/Arizona Daily Star
Christine Bauserman, a former campaign manager for former state senator Frank Antenori, starts to tear down a table set up for counter-effort gun buyback Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Tucson Police Department Midtown Substation.
- Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Jack Keyes holds a Browning .22-caliber rifle he purchased for $100 at a county gun buyback effort led by former state senator Frank Antenori. Keyes estimated the gun is worth about $500.
- Photo By Darren DaRonco/Arizona Daily Star
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