This weekend’s Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office gun buyback program yielded 428 weapons that resulted in over $30,000 pay out, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced Monday afternoon. The program, held in Asbury Park and Keansburg, was a success, he said. “There was an overwhelming response to the gun buyback program this year,” Gramiccioni […]

The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office is conducting a gun buy program this weekend, according to news release. Monmouth County residents can opt to anonymously surrender weapons 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Prosecutor’s Office satellite office at 710 Main Street in Asbury Park. Guns are also being accepted at the New […]

A two-day gun buyback program aimed to provide an anonymous way to surrender weapons brought in 359 guns this past weekend at locations in Asbury Park and Rumson, according to a news release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s office. On Friday, 209 firearms were surrendered: 112 in Asbury Park and 97 in Rumson. On Saturday, […]

A countywide gun buyback program is scheduled to take place at locations in Asbury Park and Rumson Friday and Saturday, according to a news release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. Monmouth County residents can anonymously surrender weapons Friday May 16, and Saturday, May 17, at the Asbury Park Satellite Office of the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s […]

Monmouth County officials doled out $15,000 in exchange for 218 weapons during  their gun buyback campaign Friday and Saturday. The anonymous program was sponsored by a Rumson resident who offered $25,000 of his own money to fund the campaign under one condition: one of the host locations had to be in Rumson. Authorities in Asbury […]

Two gun buyback programs will take place in Monmouth County Friday and Saturday, one in Asbury Park and one in Rumson. On Friday, Sept. 20 and Saturday, Sept. 21 Monmouth county residents can anonymously surrender weapons as part of the countywide program. “No questions asked and get cash back — that is the philosophy behind our gun buyback program,” Acting […]

In an effort to curb gun violence, the state Attorney General’s office and local law enforcement are joining to hold gun buybacks in the city in early March. Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa [pictured above, at podium] announced the program at a press conference in the city this morning. “Like all of you here today, […]

More than 1,500 guns were collected at gun buybacks in Asbury Park and Keansburg churches last weekend, Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa [pictured above at podium] has announced. The firearms collected from Asbury Park comprise almost half of the 1,581 brought in through the buybacks, Police Chief Mark Kinmon said today. “This buyback was another […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, In recent months we have had demonstrations and public unrest over the deaths of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Renisha McBride, Jordan Davis and Eric Garner. All of the victims were African American. Their killers were not black — so much for black on black crime. Five were killed by gunfire […]

The latest Guns For Cash program took in 120 weapons in exchange for cash as part of a one-day program in Asbury Park on Saturday, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced in a written statement. The firearms collection paid $7,025 for two assault weapons, 49 rifles and shotguns, and 48 handguns, including 14 semi-automatic […]