Forty-two guns are on their way to becoming garden tools following a recent buyback event in Oakland, according to police.

Police collected the weapons in exchange for Oakland A’s tickets, gift cards and garden tools forged from last year’s “Gun to Gardens” buyback. The guns collected during the latest buyback, which took place June 10, will be forged into garden tools by blacksmith John Rogers.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.