CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Since his arrival two years ago, Charlottesville Police Chief Michael Kochis has talked about holding a gun buyback program. Friday, his department is doing just that.

“If we get one firearm off the street someone doesn’t want. doesn’t get in the wrong hands and an opportunity to have conversations or give literature about being a responsible gun owner to one person, I think it’s a success,” Kochis recently told Cville Right Now.

The CPD event starts at 10 a.m. Friday at the Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church. It runs until 2 p.m. The department is offering gift cards of varying amounts, depending on the type of gun that is turned in. The location, fittingly, is not far from the site of the latest shots-fried incident the department is investigating. That occurred Tuesday night along 1st Street South.

Click here for the full story Chief Kochis told about the effort that’s finally happening.