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Toronto Police put the safety of a local resident in jeopardy when they tried to brag about the success of their gun buyback program online.

In a tweet posted by Constable Mehrdad Sayedzadeh, the Community Response Officer at 54 Division, a pile of guns was profiled in a photo, complete with identifying information on who turned them in.

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“This thing stinks,” said one of the people whose name and contact information was visible.

“It’s f^&*ing unbelievable,” he said when reached by phone.

The gun buyback program was announced on April 26 by Mayor John Tory and Police Chief Mark Saunders.

A now-deleted Tweet posted by a Toronto Police officer on Tuesday clearly showed personal information of participants in the city’s gun buy-back program. The Toronto Sun has obscured the personal information revealed in the photo.I said at the time that the program was unlikely to get guns out of the hands of gangsters and so far, that appears to be the case.