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"No Questions Asked": Ventura County Sheriff's Office Holds Gun-Turn In

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Do you have a gun that you inherited or just no longer want or need?

Ventura County Sheriff’s office is hosting a firearm turn-in this week.

Senior Deputy Mike Baker says the County Sheriff’s gun-turn in is designed to eliminate the risk of mishandling, negligent discharge or those guns ending up in the wrong hands.

"Let's say a family member has a gun from the 1950s and it's in the house bequeathed when they passed on.  If you're not a gun owner or gun fanatic then you have this gun in the house and you're like, 'What do I do with it?'" he explained to KCLU. 

"Bring it over to the Sheriff's Department and you can turn the gun in, no questions asked as to its history, origin or the reasons why you have it.  That way somebody doesn't have their house broken into in the middle of the night or when they're on vacation and we don't have guns out there on the street," Baker said. 

The turn-in is on Wednesday afternoon, at Thousand Oaks, Moorpark, Camarillo, Fillmore and Ventura Stations and the County Sheriff’s Headquarters in Ventura. 

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Caroline joined KCLU in October 2020. She won LA Press Club's Audio Journalist of the Year Award for three consecutive years in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Since joining the station she's also won 11 Golden Mike Awards, 8 Los Angeles Press Club Journalism Awards, 4 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards and three Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for Excellence in Writing, Diversity and Use of Sound.

She started her broadcasting career in the UK, in both radio and television for BBC News, 95.8 Capital FM and Sky News and was awarded by Prince Philip for her services to radio and journalism in 2007.

She has lived in California for twelve years and is both an American and British citizen - and a very proud mom to her daughter, Elsie.
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