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 […]

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 […]