Oakhurst Presbyterian Church will host a gun safe surrender event on Saturday, December 7, 2024, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. in the church parking lot at 118 Second Avenue, Decatur (enter parking from East Lake Drive).

Bring your unloaded firearms stored in the trunk of your vehicle. Guns will be dismantled and sent to RAWtools to be made into garden tools. We are holding this event because we are concerned about the high level of gun violence in our State and across the country. Anyone can bring unwanted and unloaded guns to be dismantled and made into garden tools. (Ammunition is not accepted.) If you feel it is no longer safe or desirable for you to have a gun in your home, this is a way of responsibly disposing of unwanted guns without returning them to the gun marketplace. 

The event honors those killed in the Sandy Hook School shooting in December 2012, and many who die, are injured or experience trauma each day because of gun violence.  Co-sponsors of this event are: Atlanta Friends Meeting, Social Concerns Committee; Druid Hills Presbyterian Church; North Decatur Presbyterian Church, Peace & Justice Committee; Oakhurst Baptist Church; and Saint Mark United Methodist Church.  For more information please call 404-378-6284.