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into steel rebar  Officials today will destroy 16,000 guns
confiscated from criminals and collected from numerous gun buy-
back programs across L.A. County.  Law enforcement agencies have
attempted to get guns off the street by allowing people to turn
them in for gift cards.   Back in March, an LAPD gun-buyback
program that traded gift cards for firearms netted nearly 1,700
weapons, including 40 assault-style weapons and a rifle with a
grenade launcher.   The grenade launcher AR-15 rifle, which did
not have a grenade in it, was delivered to the Los Angeles
Police Department's Topanga station over the weekend as officers
across the city distributed gift cards in exchange for handguns,
rifles and shotguns. The anonymous drop-off program netted
AR-15s, Uzis and AK-47s.   Sheriff Lee Baca will be on hand in
Rancho Cucamonga to watch the guns being crushed. They will be
recycled into stee