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Mexico offers cash to get guns off the streets: $1,200 for an AK-47 rifle and $1,300 for a machine gun

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64% Informative

Plan offers cash to those who anonymously leave weapons at drop-off locations.

Gun owners will get 8,700 pesos ($ 430 ) for a revolver, $ 1,200 for an AK-47 rifle.

The firearms are then to be destroyed.

Mexico is plagued by violent crime linked to the multibillion-dollar illegal drug trade.

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69

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semi-formal

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English

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48

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likely offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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