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Sunset Park gun buyback recovers 67 weapons

A gun buyback held in Sunset Park this weekend took 67 weapons off the street.

The first of its kind in the city, organized by the Sunset Park Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District, the 72nd Precinct and the Kings County district attorney’s office, the buyback was held at t …

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Major gun trafficker arrested

On Wednesday, October 16, Kings County District Attorney Charles Hynes and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced the indictment of Christopher “Country” McPhaul, for allegedly illegally selling 30 firearms to an

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Ask the DA: 2013 Brooklyn gun buy back program

On Saturday, August 10, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., I will be joining Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and New York City Councilmember Mathieu Eugene in Flatbush at Saint Paul’s Church in sponsoring a “Cash for Guns” program.

Father Hamblin, the pastor of St. Paul’s, will join us with host …

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ASK THE DA: Week of January 12

This past year was a very productive one for my office. Weimplemented a number of new programs aimed at making Brooklyn asafer place in which to live and work, celebrated the continuedsuccess of many of our existing programs and trial bureaus, andtook great measures to reduce the number of guns o …

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