Too much success in gun buyback

A Los Angeles citywide gun buyback program Saturday collected about 1,700 firearms from owners who'd been promised anonymity, "no questions asked" and $100 gift cards. Kevin Modesti in the Daily News.

But the program ended up being perhaps too popular for its own good, as organizers ran out of gift cards that provided the incentive and dozens of people, if not hundreds, then turned around and drove off without submitting their weapons.

LAPD and other officials hailed the city's first such anonymous program as an unexpected success while acknowledging many more people might have turned in handguns and rifles if organizers hadn't run out of the Ralphs and Visa gift cards.