By JOSH SAUL and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
Last updated: 6:54 am
October 12, 2008
Posted: 4:23 am
October 12, 2008
It's a case of guns for butter, triggered by the fiscal crisis.
Cash-strapped good Samaritans yesterday answered the Brooklyn DA's call to swap revolvers and rifles for $200 apiece at four borough churches.
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"I'm a plumber but not currently employed, and times are hard," said Tony DeFelice, 47, of Queens, who doubled his money by surrendering a shotgun he said he bought 10 years ago for $100.
And Mary Lightfoot, 29, of New Rochelle, and Santos Montano, 30, of Williamsburg, pocketed $1,200 for six weapons found in an abandoned house upstate.
The program netted 427 firearms yesterday, including six assault weapons, bringing the total to 1,435 since July, according to the DA's spokesman.
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