3rd Annual Cambridge Safer Homes, Safer Community Gun Buy Back Day June 10th

Led by Cambridge’s interfaith-based organizations, the Cambridge non-profit community and regional partners are proactively teaming up and hosting the 3rd annual citywide “Safer Homes, Safer Community: Cambridge Gun Buy-Back” initiative on Saturday, June 10 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

This public health and public safety event will provide residents with an opportunity to anonymously and safely dispose of their unwanted firearms and, in turn, reduce the potential for an accidental discharge or wrongdoing in a home.  

Drop-off locations will provide a safe, convenient way for participants to drop off unwanted guns with no questions asked and no ID required.  The drop-off locations are:

Reservoir Church

170 Rindge Ave, Cambridge

Drop-off: Parking lot in front of the church (enter on Middlesex)

Pentecostal Tabernacle 
77 Columbia Street (near Central Square)
Drop off:  Church parking lot

Cambridge Police and the Middlesex Sheriff’s Office will be managing both sites and handling the guns turned in, and the State Police will destroy the guns. For added convenience, the Cambridge Police will be available to pick-up firearms at a Cambridge residence, if interested participants are not able or have concerns about physically dropping off unwanted firearms. To schedule a pickup, please call 617-349-3300. 

As an incentive to participate, residents will be awarded gift cards for each firearm they turn into public safety officers on the day of the event.  The values range depending on the firearm type:

$200 gift card                    Assault Weapon

$100 gift card                    Revolver, Handgun, Semi-Automatic, Shotgun, Rifle

$50 gift card                       BB Gun, Pellet Gun, Ammunition

Children who turn in any toy guys will be eligible to receive a $5 ice cream gift card.

For those who cannot attend the event, gift cards will be honored if pickups are scheduled during the week leading up to June 10^th event. 

For more information on Cambridge’s Gift Cards for Guns, please visit camb.ma/GiftCardsforGuns. If you or your organization is interested in becoming involved in the event (e.g. donate gift cards, volunteer at the event or help post flyers in advance of the event), please e-mail lori@manyhelpinghands365.org.   

The following Cambridge interfaith organizations and community partners are collaborating on this important initiative: Abundant Life Church, A Place to Heal Ministry, Cambridgeport Baptist Church, Cambridge Community Fellowship Church, Congregation Eitz Chayim, Christ Church, First Church in Cambridge Congregational, First Holiness Church, Islamic Society of Boston in Cambridge, Journey Church, Pentecostal Tabernacle, Rush AME Zion Church, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Temple Beth Shalom, Union Baptist Church, Greater Boston Vineyard Church, Cambridge Community Arts Center, Cambridge Community Foundation, Cambridge Community Center, Cambridge Peace Commission, East End House, Many Helping Hands, Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House, Cambridge Police Department, Cambridge Public Health Department, Middlesex Sheriff’s Office, Massachusetts State Police, and more.

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