A Gun Buyback, Sponsored by Junior’s

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Junior's owner Alan Rosen sponsored a gun buyback event over the weekend. “Being a good restaurant today to me is not enough,” said Rosen. “If you’re part of a community, which we are, you have an obligation to do something.” chrisecrowley reports

Photo: Adam Powell On Saturday, as temperatures in New York City cracked 90 degrees for the first time this year, Brooklyn district attorney Eric Gonzalez was inside Clinton Hill’s Emmanuel Baptist Church. Signs posted in the area had advertised the event: a gun buyback put on by the DA’s office, the NYPD, and the New York City Police Foundation.

Photo: Adam Powell Rosen donated $20,000 to the event, which went to the NYCPF, which in turn used the money to purchase iPads and offer larger-than-usual sums for the guns: a $200 bank card and an iPad for assault rifles and handguns, a $25 bank card for air guns, rifles, and shotguns. “Like everything else, guns cost a lot more now than they cost in the past,” Gonzalez said of the higher totals being offered. “So we needed to induce more people to turn in the guns.

Photo: Adam Powell Adams, who has taken a tough-on-crime tone and advocated for a return to broken-windows policing, has gotten some heat for this. Writing about the increase in violent crime, Politico argued his tough stance “is running smack into the reality of increasingly grim statistics nearly 100 days into his administration.

Brooklyn district attorney Eric Gonzalez. Adam Powell. Brooklyn district attorney Eric Gonzalez. Adam Powell. However, the effectiveness of buyback programs has been called into question before. The authors of a 2004 report by the National Research Council called buybacks “badly flawed,” though the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research’s Jon Vernick told the Daily Beast that gun buybacks are “an effective grassroots method” to raise awareness.

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