Some 35,000 people are expected at Alamodome for Friday’s concert, which will likely cause traffic delays during rush hour. Credit: Shutterstock / 4kclips

District 9 Councilman John Courage’s second-annual gun buyback drew hundreds of people who exchanged more than 550 firearms for H-E-B gift cards on Sunday, KSAT reports.

Participants were required to turn in working weapons at the Alamodome in exchange for the cards, and no toys or broken guns were accepted. Those who handed over shotguns and hunting rifles got $100 cards, while pistols were worth $150 and assault rifles such as AR-15s were worth $200.

“Our goal is to make people feel safer in their homes,” Courage told KSAT. “There are too many people who are committing suicide in their own homes. There are too many cases of domestic violence and women being murdered in their homes with a handgun. There are too many cases of children finding weapons in the home.”

Courage initiated his first gun buyback last November. That one yielded some 900 weapons.

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