ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - Almost every week since May, Danielle Hammond enters a room lined with long white folding tables at the UnGUN Free Store. The space operates differently from a traditional grocery store, allowing families to pick two bags of items to help them get by.

There are no checkout lines or price tags, just limits. Shoppers can take two items from one section, one from another, depending on what’s available that day.

“We struggle month to month. I don’t get my stamps until the 16th, and it’s way off. This helps tremendously,” said Hammond, a SNAP recipient shopping at the store.

For Hammond, a mother of two, the UnGUN Free Store fills the gaps that SNAP benefits can’t cover, especially with the needs of her autistic daughter.

“They have opened their arms and ope

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