Posted on 07/10/2012 8:23:33 AM PDT by ShadowAce
A pro-gun group claims it flipped the script on Chicago's firearms buyback program by selling old, broken rifles to the city and then using the money to buy guns and ammo for an NRA-sponsored shooting camp for kids.
"Guns Save Life," based in Champaign, Ill., recently sold 60 firearms to the Chicago Police Department -- 10 of which were manufactured before 1898 -- in exchange for $6,240 in gift cards, according to group president John Boch. The sale also included five BB guns and a rickety pump-action shotgun that was held together by duct tape and zip ties, he said.
"They recognized it for the junk it was," Boch said of the sale. "At one of the locations, one of the detectives was very tenacious ... And hit the guys with a flurry of questions like 'Where the hell did you get these, from a graveyard?' "
But the department carried out the transaction anyway, and the organization used the proceeds to fund the youth shooting camp. Boch said the money earned is being used to buy rifles and ammunition for an annual summer camp held at Darnall Gun Works & Ranges in Bloomington, Ill.
"The real delicious irony here is that the city of Chicago is paying for rifles that we're giving away to young people as part of this camp," Boch told FoxNews.com. "The program was intended to get unwanted and unused guns off the street to make the community safer. We provided them unused and unwanted guns."
Unwanted, because "they just didn't work."
Chicago's gun turn-in program, dubbed "Don't Kill a Dream, Save a Life," was implemented with the goal of removing dangerous weapons from the street. The program claims on its website that a "gun in the home is more likely to be used in a homicide,...
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I love irony
Think the city will sue?
On what grounds? They already knew that the guns were inoperable at the time of the transaction. There were no limits to the money being given.
I bet they didn't expect that to happen.
“The amount of gun violence in Chicago is simply unacceptable and the impact of gun violence is far reaching,” the police department said in a statement.
If you are an IDIOT, you should never make a public statement.
Gun violence?? What the hell is that? A gun walked into a bank and shot someone during a robbery?
NO. Some low life scumbag piece of crap did that using a gun.
The low life is what is violent. That is where you stop crime and violence. At the source. Gun Buy Backs are simply PC waste of time and money and are unlikely to have ever saved one life.
Except in this case where kids learned to use real weapons.
LOL!!!
This sort of thing happens all the time. There are plenty of dealers across Illinois who are aware of these “buy-backs” and use them to cash in junkers and “Saturday Night Specials” that they either can’t or won’t sell for safety reasons.
They could file a harassment suit, claiming something like failure to follow the intent of the “buyback”.
I don’ think they will, but if someone feels slighted by the pro-gunners, they may try to use their government power to blunt the cheering.
It’s great to see Conservative using their God-given smarts to turn lemons into lemonade!
The easiest way to stop crime in the inner city jungle is to DEMAND A DRUG SCREEN BE PASSED EVERY MONTH BEFORE AID PAYMENTS CAN BE COLLECTED...every mother and child over 14
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