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15 Feb ’12
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can't wait to see the guns displayed that they buy through the program, anyone remember this?
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a new $250,000 effort to take guns off the city's streets.
Under the new program, churches and neighborhood community organizations can apply to hold their own buyback events (with police help), as opposed to previous buybacks which were single, city-run events.
"We're going to try everything we can to bring a level of security and safety throughout the city of Chicago so that our families and our children have the opportunity to grow up free from violence," Emanuel said, according to CBS Chicago.
Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy explained that buyback attendees will be able to anonymously turn in a gun, no questions asked. Participants will earn a $100 cash card for returning a gun, meaning that the budget could fund the return of 2,500 guns. The money for the program will come from the Chicago Police Department's community policing program, according to ABC 7 Chicago.
Gun-rights groups have already come out against the program.
28 Feb ’12
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im going there thursday, anyone has a crap gun they want to get rid of?
15 Feb ’12
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just take in a airsoft or BB gun, they have been bought before in the buy backs
28 Feb ’12
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lol
6 Oct ’15
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'No questions asked'...really?...and this is what the gov't wants you to believe.
Any chance one of those guns may have been used in a crime?...but we aren't going to ask questions...whose running the show???
15 Feb ’12
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lol, I knew this was going to happen
Hours after Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a $250,000 gun buyback program on Monday, a downstate gun-rights advocate promised to come to Chicago to exploit it.
“We will be delighted to transact business once more with do-gooders in Chicago,” John Boch, executive director of Champaign-based Guns Save Life, said Monday.
Guns Save Life used Chicago’s 2012 gun buyback to embarrass city officials. That year, members said they turned in about 60 guns — some of them rusty and inoperable.
They received $100 MasterCard gift cards for each gun, which they used to buy ammunition for a National Rifle Association youth camp in Bloomington and bolt-action rifles to give away to campers.
At the time, city officials angrily accused Guns Save Life of abusing a program intended to take guns off the streets of Chicago and reduce violence. But Boch says the group was simply demonstrating the ineffectiveness of the program.
“Tell the mayor we need substance over symbolism,” he said Monday.
Boch is vowing to return to Chicago with another 50 or 60 guns to turn in.
“We will put that money to good use for public awareness efforts on our part,” he said. “We don’t need gun control, we need crime control.”
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