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SEATTLE - The city's first gun buy-back program in 20 years was a victim of its own success Saturday - turning away people more than three hours early after a huge turnout used up all the gift certificates available.

But police said no one should fret if they didn't make it to Saturday's buy-back because another is planned for the near future.

A huge crowd of hundreds of people flocked to the special buy-back program, creating a traffic jam in downtown Seattle as they made their way to the drop-off site under Interstate 5.

KOMO News reporter Mark Miller, at the scene, said several hundred gun owners showed up to turn in their weapons and receive gift certificates in return.

The massive turnout clogged traffic on Sixth Avenue and on an I-5 off-ramp leading to the buy-back area, located in a parking lot underneath the freeway between James and Cherry streets.

-I'm disappointed. I know Seattle region is known for liberal earth loving, democratic and socialist mined people. But still, I always thought we loved our guns.