The city of Houston said its second gun buyback event Saturday morning made history after 1,208 guns were turned into authorities in exchange for a gift card up to $200.
were turned in on Saturday in exchange for a gift card, which is about 400 more than the 845 collected during Houston's first buyback in July.
Dozens of shotguns and rifles sit in bins in the back of a car following Houston's gun buyback event. "We believe this the largest one-day gun buyback collection, if not the largest, in U.S. history," the city of Houston said on Twitter. U.S. Rep. Al Green was also at the news conference and said the buyback program is"not an effort to take guns," but one way to return stolen guns to their rightful owners.
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