The New York Police Department does not make an exact yearly confiscation total easy to obtain. Estimates put seizures at 5,000 to 7,000 firearms. Officials state more than 4,500 have been taken this year with two months still remaining. About one third of those weapons were involved in crimes, most of the others came from unlawful possession cases, and several hundred arrived through buyback programs. The department has released a 90-second video showing the firearms being melted.