As Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls on the West for more weapons, one US city answers the call in an unexpected way.
It's never been done beforeCity of Miami Commissioner Ken Russell asked if they could also send guns — the police chief said it had never been done before.
Then they found a local exporter with a licence to sell guns to Ukraine and created the gun buyback program. "We would receive the gun, check it in, make sure it was safe... and then they would receive a gift card and be on their way.""We thought this is something we could do at the city level to make a little difference, not only on the epidemic of gun violence, but also maybe to help Ukraine out a little bit," he said.
He said one lady told him that her husband, a veteran who collected guns, was now going through Alzheimer's disease, which made her worry about having guns in the house.
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