Anyone with firearms can turn them in for cash — up to $250 weapon — with no questions asked at a gun buyback event Saturday in Essex County funded by private donations raised by the county bar association.

It will be the first gun buyback in Essex County since 2017 when the Attorney General’s Office organized events in Newark, Trenton and Camden and handed out $481,620 in exchange for 4,775 guns.

The events that aim to reduce gun violence usually rely on limited public grants or police forfeiture funds to pay the people who turn in guns.

But this event was funded almost entirely by private donations, thanks to a campaign by the Essex County Bar Foundation.

The bar foundation said it has raised about $75,000 from donors to buy the guns, while the prosecutor’s office and Newark police are handling the logistics for the event.

Guns will be collected Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Bethany Baptist Church in Newark. The payments vary depending on the gun they’re turning in, with the maximum payment $250 for assault rifles (up to three weapons.)

Cops won’t be asking any questions about where the weapons came from or if they’re legal or registered, the bar foundation said.

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