The city of Pensacola gun buyback event was held last Saturday at Bill Gregory Park collected 71 guns in its first 30 minutes and using up the entire $10,000 budgeted for the event. The event was scheduled to last from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, but ended early after all of the available funding was spent by 9:30 a.m. District 7 Councilman Delarian Wiggins proposed the program in January to raise awareness about gun violence in the city while getting guns off of the street. Mayor Robinson used $10,000 from the Mayor’s Discretionary Fund to pay for the program. Prices for the program were set at $150 for semi-automatic pistols, $125 for revolvers and $200 for semi-automatic rifles.