Food for Firearms?

Cash for Clunkers was the big trade-in program of the year, and one New Jersey county is taking a cue from the feds and starting its own trade-in project: guns for food. Cumberland County, the poorest in New Jersey, is offering county residents food vouchers in exchange for handguns in an effort to deal with two of the county’s largest problems: hunger and gun-related violence. While Cumberland County Sheriff Bob Austino acknowledged that “the gangbangers in the street we know are not going to come in and hand their guns in,” he said he was optimistic that the program would work, adding that the county is “encouraging people to bring in their unused guns that could fall into the wrong hands if stolen.”