"Several times a year the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office brings firearms seized from people under a protective order, or convicted of domestic violence, to the Dickerson Incinerator. It is here the firearms are melted down....
"Because we know once a victim of domestic violence has the courage to go forward to either press charges or get a protective order the first 24 to 72 hours that is in the window of time when in many instances there is a lot of emotion," says Montgomery County State's Attorney John McCarthy.
"McCarthy says in 2010 the county did not have a single domestic violence homicide. Last year there were two. McCarthy credits the mandatory seizure of guns as one tool for keeping the numbers low in this jurisdiction of over one million people....
"To go an entire calendar year and not have a domestic violence homicide tells me something is being done right in this community," says McCarthy...."
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