“William Stewart Boyd drove to a South Side church 13 years ago to turn over his late father’s handgun to Chicago police as part of a buyback program aimed at keeping derelict firearms off the streets.”
A real American patriot that guy. /s/
It's Chicago.
“And after five years of contentious litigation in the federal civil rights case over the shooting, Cicero officials are now poised to write a $3.5 million settlement check to members of the dead man’s family who claim police planted the gun to cover up an unjustified shooting.”
Perhaps the most expensive S&W .38 in history.
Guns go missing from police custody all the time.
Sure sounds like a throw-down piece
buy back ping
Of all things that pisses me off from this article was “The cop – with a history of discipline problems – is now off the force collecting a disability pension because of post-traumatic stress from the incident.”
Instead of being disciplined, he gets a Get Out of Jail Free card, along with some nice tax-free money from the taxpayers he betrayed.
I always have believed that everything isn’t destroyed after one of these scams. I am a firm believer that firearms like these wind up with connected/crooked cops. I think it’s especially true with collectors item firearms bought for a mere pittance of actual value from some unsuspecting citizen that end up in police officer’s personal collections.
...and thousands of Dremels can be heard working quietly in police evidence lockers across the country.