{"id":1188,"date":"2015-10-21T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2015\/10\/21\/gaming-gun-buy-back\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:26:00","slug":"gaming-gun-buy-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"Gaming A Gun Buy-Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10058,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cityofchicago.org\\\/city\\\/en\\\/depts\\\/mayor\\\/press_room\\\/press_releases\\\/2015\\\/september\\\/mayor-emanuel-announces-new-buy-back-program-to-get-guns-off-the.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20160730063948\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.cityofchicago.org\\\/city\\\/en\\\/depts\\\/mayor\\\/press_room\\\/press_releases\\\/2015\\\/september\\\/mayor-emanuel-announces-new-buy-back-program-to-get-guns-off-the.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 19:14:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 06:37:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 06:37:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10059,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/chicago.suntimes.com\\\/news\\\/7\\\/71\\\/1027846\\\/gun-rights-group-vows-exploit-emanuels-new-250000-gun-buyback&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/chicago.suntimes.com\\\/news\\\/7\\\/71\\\/1027846\\\/gun-rights-group-vows-exploit-emanuels-new-250000-gun-buyback&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10060,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wbez.org\\\/programs\\\/afternoon-shift\\\/2012-09-24\\\/chicago-gangs-abound-where-are-they-102612&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20160215140159\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.wbez.org:80\\\/programs\\\/afternoon-shift\\\/2012-09-24\\\/chicago-gangs-abound-where-are-they-102612&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 19:14:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 06:37:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 06:37:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10061,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wbez.org\\\/node\\\/102612#gangmap&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20160220032359\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.wbez.org:80\\\/node\\\/102612&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 19:14:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 06:37:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 06:37:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofchicago.org\/city\/en\/depts\/mayor\/press_room\/press_releases\/2015\/september\/mayor-emanuel-announces-new-buy-back-program-to-get-guns-off-the.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to waste another $250,000<\/a> of the city&#8217;s money in order to fund a gun buy-back. He announced his plans yesterday at press conference attended by the usual hanger&#8217;s on. The money is coming from the Chicago Police Department&#8217;s budget. The &#8220;intent&#8221; is to &#8220;get guns off the street&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Emanuel&#8217;s buy-back will be a partnership between the city and various groups who can apply for grants to fund buy-backs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Organizations can apply directly to the police department and will be responsible for organizing and advertising the events. Chicago police will staff the buy-back events, recover the guns, and provide cash cards for guns turned in. The $250,000 fund will be used to purchase the cash cards, and is funded through the existing CPD budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIllegal guns drive violence in our neighborhoods, and we must do everything possible to keep them off our streets,\u201d said Superintendent McCarthy. \u201cOur officers already recover more illegal guns than officers in any other city in the country, and this new take on gun buy-backs will help us get even more guns out of our communities.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The last time the city sponsored such a buy-back gun rights organizations and suburban gun dealers dumped a number of inoperable firearms on the city and collected $100 each in gift cards. John Boch of Guns Saves Lives said the money was used to purchase ammo for a NRA youth camp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/news\/7\/71\/1027846\/gun-rights-group-vows-exploit-emanuels-new-250000-gun-buyback\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boch said his group will be back and the cops aren&#8217;t happy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Boch is vowing to return to Chicago with another 50 or 60 guns to turn in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will put that money to good use for public awareness efforts on our part,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t need gun control, we need crime control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Guglielmi, spokesman for the Chicago Police Department, said officers will check to see whether turned-in guns are operable but won\u2019t check the IDs of the people who bring them in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people want to game the system, society is the victim,\u201d he said. \u201cI think those people need to ask themselves, are they part of the solution to reduce violence?\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, what Mr. Guglielmi should be asking is whether this $250,000 of taxpayer&#8217;s money couldn&#8217;t be better used in enforcement efforts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbez.org\/programs\/afternoon-shift\/2012-09-24\/chicago-gangs-abound-where-are-they-102612\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">against criminal gangs<\/a> such as the Gangster Disciples, the Latin Kings, and Black P Stone. When you look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbez.org\/node\/102612#gangmap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a map of Chicago<\/a> and see very few areas that don&#8217;t have known gang boundaries, it is what I&#8217;d be asking.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to waste another $250,000 of the city&#8217;s money in order to fund a gun&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[737,2085,2086,2087,1609],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chicago","tag-gun-buyback","tag-guns-save-lives","tag-john-boch","tag-rahm-emanuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10499,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/10499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}