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Mayor Daley announced that the city will try to repeat its successful gun buyback campaign this Saturday, with citizens bringing firearms into 25 participating churches between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. in exchange for a $100 prepaid MasterCard. BB, replica, and air guns will also be accepted in exchange for $10 prepaid cards. But the programs effectiveness, which brought in a record 6,700 guns last year (Daley and Chief of Police Jody Weis hope to double that number this year), and the city's ability to finance it is being called into question this year. That's because corporate sponsors, who have increasingly been asked to finance a number of high-price Daley initiatives, aren't handing over the loot quick enough.
What's more, Dr. Carl Bell, president and CEO of the Community Mental Health Council and Foundation, told the city council that the guns being turned in "don’t work in the first damn place." Daley disagreed with that assessment: "If someone takes that gun and fires at you, are you willing to take that chance? Not many people are...So, don't ever think that the guns turned in don't work because there wouldn't be anyone left in your company. We're gonna go over there and find out whether they work." He added, "now maybe you're talking about something in the Civil War, but still, that can work too."
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I'm going to turn in my musket. As a trained shot I can fire over 2 shots every 90 seconds. Think of the killing power!*
*at a very short distance, if the target is not wearing armor. Or padding. Or heavy clothes. Or a shirt.
Ward and Fed Up, as my favorite StreetWise Vendor once said "help a man trying to help himself". Give me a few of your guns so I can get some cash. You don't need those 38' specials any longer your machine guns and glocks are now your foundations
dumb q: what do they do with these guns anyway? oh, sun-times, where art thine investigative reports?
Shannon: They shovel them all into a blast furnace at a steel mill in Gary.
I think there's money to be made here. I've been to a lot of pawn shops in southern states that sell Saturday night specials and little .22 revolvers for as low as $20.00. So:
1) get a friend or relative to buy a few dozen cheap revolvers down south for $25.00 each.
2) Smuggle them to Chicago (don't get caught).
3) Turn them in at the gun buy back for a few dozen $100.00 cash cards.
4) PROFIT!
actually trjames, I bet all you have to do is make it to the chicago boarder, Get pulled over in the chi, just tell the police that your heading to turn them in!