A New, Probably Ineffectual, Chicago Gun Buy-Back Program
From CBS2Chicago, we hear of another gun buy-back program. $100.00 prepaid MasterCard for any gun turned in.
"Today I'm asking every resident of Chicago to turn in their firearm -- shotgun, rifles, automatic, semi automatic, pistol, revolver… No questions asked," Daley said.
I think that the SecondCityCop (Chicago Police Officer, blogger, and 2nd Amendment supporter) summed it up the best:
Because god forbid you have guns around when the crime running rampant across the city comes to your home. After all, didn't the governor just say he's going to send the National Guard and State Troopers to the City because it's out of control? Yeah, we know he backtracked a bit, but J-Fed still had his first meeting with the troopers to see how an agency short 500 officers is going to expend the manpower necessary to shore up another Department that's short a few thousand street officers.
If you've got a piece of crap gun that's rusted shut and wouldn't fire if you soaked it for a week in a vat of machine oil, go get your $100 card. Use it to buy a decent gun. But Daley's gun laws are going to come tumbling down around his ears in short order. No need to give away decent guns for $100. You know the criminals aren't.
By the way, this raises some interesting question about our FOID policy: How can people who don't possess a FOID card legally turn guns in without being subject to the law? I mean, seriously, they're transporting guns to a church illegally and they're basically admitting that they kept unregistered long arms or illegal handguns in willful violation of the law!
Oh, I see, one law applies to them and another applies to us... Hypocrites...
Posted 02:17PM Jul 23, 2008 by MCSA
