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Posted by: cptnkrk 1 month ago

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Mayor Richard Daley on Tuesday implored residents to hand over their guns in exchange for prepaid gift cards despite questions about the program's effectiveness and reluctant corporate sponsorship.
Daley was quick to defend the program, in which gun owners can turn over their weapons "no questions asked" from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in exchange for $100 a gun.

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cptnkrk1 month ago

For $100 a gun I have a couple I'd take in.
One of the many reasons these programs don't work is that people will turn in cheap or junk guns and use the money to buy better guns.
The gift card thing doesn't help because you can always find someone to cash out your gift card.
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cptnkrk1 month ago

FTA: "The buy-back program was challenged last week by Dr. Carl Bell, a psychiatrist and president and CEO of Chicago’s Community Mental Health Council, who said at a City Council hearing that the guns being turned in "don’t work in the first damn place."
A shrink with some horse-sense!!
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Wolfie20071 month ago

Daley says guns live forever, I think he's confused guns aren't alive and they do wear out. These gun grabbers say the silliest things. If I were close by Chicago I have a couple of old worn out, nearly dead 22's and a 410 I would trade for a $100 gift card each. What a bunch of losers. LMAO
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Wolfie20071 month ago

So this propeller doesn't post comments either?
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dondukdun1 month ago

You want something effective? From the government of chicago?
No, no, no! It just has to look good. Silly people. . .
/sarcsm
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aniokly1 month ago

The guns turned in for the $100. are mostly guns used in crimes by gang bangers. The police are not allowed to check to see if they have been used in crimes, and they are destroyed. Presto, all the evidence is gone curtesy of the Chicago Police Department.
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