Mayor says gun buy-back is another tool against crime

  • Natchitoches Crime Stoppers paid for signs that were erected on city streets.
    Natchitoches Crime Stoppers paid for signs that were erected on city streets.

    The City introduced an ordinance that calls for starting a gun buy-back program at the City Council meeting Monday.

    Mayor Ronnie Williams Jr. said that $25,000 to finance the program will be taken from the City’s American Rescue Replacement Funding (ARPA) that was awarded by the Federal government to provide government services for which there was a shortfall of revenue funding because of the COVID…