San Mateo County authorities said that they collected 425 firearms at a gun buyback event in San Carlos recently.
The county on Saturday, Dec. 11, held the first of five such buyback events planned through 2023 and paid $100 per handgun, shotgun or rifle and $200 per assault weapon.
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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.
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