LA sheriff: Gifts for guns marks best year ever

The Los Angeles County sheriff’s office says it collected more than 5,300 guns from people participating in its gifts-for-guns program—its highest mark ever.

Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said Wednesday the weapons collection in 2009 exceeded the combined amount from the first four years of the program.

He says people who turned in their guns received a combined 8,100 gift cards worth about $428,000. He says the majority of the people asked for grocery store vouchers so they could buy food.

Whitmore says there were about 2,500 handguns, 1,900 rifles, 770 shotguns and 1,300 assault weapons.

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