A Denver Police Officer holds a pistol dropped off at a gun turn-in program in the New Covenant Church on Denver’s east side.  The program was originally intended as a buy-back before the sponsoring organization ran out of money to exchange for guns.  Targeted at firearms that have a fair likelihood of being used in the commission of a crime –stolen and street-purchased guns –sponsors collected a dozen weapons in a matter of hours on a no-questions-asked basis before turning them over to the police.