{"id":42204,"date":"2015-09-02T09:25:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T13:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=42204"},"modified":"2015-09-02T09:25:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T00:06:59","slug":"bad-idea-city-unveils-gun-drop-box-to-get-firearms-off-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/bad-idea-city-unveils-gun-drop-box-to-get-firearms-off-the-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Idea?  City Unveils Gun &#8216;Drop Box&#8217; to Get Firearms Off the Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tacoma, Washington is working on a new program to provide a local drop box for residents to dump their unwanted firearms.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is providing anonymity to anyone who wants to discard a firearm, and while Tacoma residents can already turn in guns to local law enforcement, this method alleviates the need for human interaction.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42205\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GunDropBox.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"bad-idea-city-unveils-gun-drop-box-to-get-firearms-off-the-street\" title=\"Bad Idea?  City Unveils Gun 'Drop Box' to Get Firearms Off the Street\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42205\" title=\"Bad Idea?  City Unveils Gun 'Drop Box' to Get Firearms Off the Street\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42205\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GunDropBox-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"A drop box for guns.  Bad idea? (Photo: Controversial Times)\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GunDropBox-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GunDropBox-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GunDropBox.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A drop box for guns. Bad idea? (<em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/controversialtimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"bad-idea-city-unveils-gun-drop-box-to-get-firearms-off-the-street\" title=\"Bad Idea?  City Unveils Gun 'Drop Box' to Get Firearms Off the Street\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Controversial Times<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/controversialtimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"bad-idea-city-unveils-gun-drop-box-to-get-firearms-off-the-street\" title=\"Bad Idea?  City Unveils Gun 'Drop Box' to Get Firearms Off the Street\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">)<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt takes out the up-front interaction with law enforcement,\u201d said Melissa Cordeiro, gang reduction project coordinator for Tacoma. \u201cThey would just have to drop the gun off and later law enforcement would swing by and pick it up out of the drop box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s kind of like the olden days of dropping off a movie at Blockbuster. But having so many firearms in a single, non-guarded place leaves many concerned about safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely something that is controlled access and one way,\u201d said Cordeiro. \u201cYou can put something in, but you can\u2019t take something out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the initiative is successful, Tacoma will be setting a precedence, but first they have to figure out exactly how it would work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make sure that it is in a safe enough location but also that police are involved,\u201d said Cordeiro. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to make this a target location for rival gang members or for somebody trying to steal a weapon off the street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(<em>This article was a submission from freelance writer Brent Rogers<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tacoma, Washington is working on a new program to provide a local drop box for residents to dump their unwanted firearms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":42205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,326,241,240],"tags":[132],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-brent","9":"category-rapid-fire","10":"category-this-week","11":"tag-buzz"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bad Idea? 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