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Bring a functioning firearm and receive a laptop.
That’s the buy-back deal being offered this Saturday at the Downtown Cultural Arts Center, where computer training nonprofit Digit All Systems will be handing out 150 working laptops to anyone who brings in a working firearm for trade.
Computers for Guns takes place July 13 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. More information and the address here.
Digit All founder Lance Lucas is paying for the event out of pocket, he said, the exception being some of the laptops that were donated specifically for the buy-back. He’s raising another $5,000 through a GiveCorps campaign to recoup the cost of refurbishing 82 laptops, renting the venue and purchasing refreshments.
Donate to the GiveCorps campaign.
To learn more about Digit All Systems, read Technically Baltimore’s profile of Lucas and his nonprofit, published in November 2012.
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