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When he heard of Houston’s gun buyback event Saturday, one Spring Branch man figured he could make some money.
He drove down to Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Third Ward with his guns in his trunk and, like hundreds of others, spent hours in a 2-mile line that stretched down Scott Street. An old pistol he was gifted and no longer had use for was taken when it was his turn to relinquish it, but his two privately assembled and untraceable handguns — commonly known as “ghost guns” — were turned away.
“(Staff) just said they didn’t want any more of these ghost guns,” said Chris Kelm, who manufactured two 3D-printed handguns at a cost of $5 each with the purpose of making a profit at the event. “They’re fully functional firearms with firing pins and everything else.”
The ghost guns, often cheap to make and accessible, became a contentious point for Mayor Sylvester Turner and One Safe Houston, his $53 million public safety initiative, after some were exchanged for gift cards.
At the next such event, likely held in the next couple of months near Alief, ghost guns won’t be accepted.
“It was not designed for people to manufacture those guns and come get a Visa gift card,” he said.