The Ceasefire Oregon Education Foundation works to reduce gun violence
by educating the public and providing opportunities to dispose of unwanted firearms.
For information about our work, please click on the links to the left.
We welcome your participation.

We collected 485 guns at the May 11 turn-in.
Thank you to everyone who helped make this turn-in such a success.

The Ceasefire Oregon Education Foundation hosts an annual gun turn-in to provide a place where gun owners can dispose of unwanted firearms with no questions asked.

Our most recent gun turn-in was held on Saturday, May 11, 2013, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Lynwood Friends Church in Portland. We collected 485 guns at the turn-in.
Many thanks to everyone who participated.

May 11, 2013, Gun Turn-In
Sponsoring Partners:
Portland Police Bureau
Ceasefire Oregon Education Foundation
City of Portland:
Mayor Charlie Hales
Commissioner Steve Novick
Office of Neighborhood Involvement
Multnomah County: Commissioner Deborah Kafoury
Rosewood Initiative

The Portland Police Bureau accepted the guns at the turn-in with no questions asked. Participants received a Safeway or Fred Meyer gift card for each working gun, with a limit of three gift cards per person. The gift cards were awarded as follows:
Handguns: $100
Rifles and shotguns: $75
Assault weapons: $150
Magazines—capacity 50 and above: $25
Pellet and BB guns: $10

We thank our many individual, church, and foundation supporters who donated the funds to make this event possible.
We purchase the gift cards from Safeway and Fred Meyer; they are not donated.

To date, 8,272 guns have been collected at our gun turn-ins.

 

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Is there a gun where your child plays?
ASK.

The Portland ASK Campaign
encourages parents to ASK:
Is there a gun where my child plays?

The Portland ASK Campaign has been endorsed by
Former Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski and former First Lady Mary Oberst
Former District Attorney Michael Schrunk
Doernbecher Children's Hospital
YWCA of Greater Portland
Providence Health System
American Red Cross–Oregon Trail Chapter
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
Housing Authority of Portland
Oregon Pediatric Society
Portland Parks and Recreation


If you'd like to help with the Portland ASK Campaign, please contact the
Ceasefire Oregon Education Foundation at 503.220.1669 or info@ceasefireoregon.org.