News Release

PERTH AMBOY & OLD BRIDGE – Perth Amboy to participate in a gun buy back program headed by the state and Middlesex County, the tenth in New Jersey since December and the second in Middlesex County in 17 months.

On Sept. 27 and 28, people can turn in firearms at churches in New Brunswick, Old Bridge and Perth Amboy and receive up to $250, acting State Attorney General John Hoffman said last week in a joint statement with acting Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey.

A person can turn in up to three guns with no questions asked, Hoffman said. Both the Attorney General’s Office and the county prosecutor’s office will use forfeiture funds to finance the program.

Guns will be collected from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Sacred Heart Parish Hall, 115 Commercial Ave., New Brunswick; the Sayre Woods Bible Church, 2290 Route 9 South, between Jake Brown Road and Route 516, in Old Bridge, and at the Cathedral International, 282 Madison Ave., Perth Amboy.

More information about the program is available from the Attorney General’s citizen services unit at (609) 984-5828 or at nj.gov/guns.