
On Saturday, October 30, residents of Hayward can sell their guns to the Hayward Police Department for $50 each. Rick Blanton, crime prevention specialist for the city, is heading the annual gun exchange program, which has purchased about 780 guns during the last ten years. Similar to gun purchase programs in other cities, police will ask no questions to people bringing their guns for purchase. “And it has to be a working gun,” states Blanton, who adds that the