NYC Council Introduction 934

intro.nyc/0934-2024 2024-2025 Legislative Session
Voluntary community gun buy-back program.
Status: Committee Committee on Public Safety
Sponsored by Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
Introduced: May 23, 2024

This bill would require the Police Department to establish a monthly gun buy-back program, whereby individuals may voluntarily and anonymously surrender to the department a working or non-working unloaded gun or parts thereof, in exchange for a sum of money to be determined by the department upon surrender. Individuals surrendering a gun would not be required to provide identification or any personally identifiable information, and would not be subject to criminal or civil penalties for the illegal possession of such gun, unless such penalties are required by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations. The gun buy-back program would take place in a different borough at least once each month, on a rotating basis.