Hey, thanks Chicago Gun Best Buy!  PART II

Greetings and salutations, folks.

You'll recall my trip up to Chicago on July 21st to turn in a bunch of scrap metal for what amounted to $100 bills.

The thread, "A BEST BUY in Chicagoland: Selling (s)crap metal at a gun turn in" can be found here from THR or here for the Arfcom version..

Long story short:  Some unnamed corporate sponsor coughs up about $600,000 in pre-paid credit cards to be given away for guns in any condition on July 21.  A number of Guns Save Life members donated various clunkers and non-firing pieces of (s)crap metal and on that fateful day, I ventured to the heart of the not-so-nice part of Chicago and traded a total of 23 guns for 23 $100 pre-paid credit cards, netting $1700 for Guns Save Life.

We thought it fitting to use that money to sponsor ammunition for the NRA Youth Shooting Camp this weekend at Darnall's in Bloomington.

This is the longest-running NRA camp of its type in the nation!

Not only that, but we used most of five of the cards to buy two CZ rifles to be given away tomorrow to two of the lucky young people at the camp!

Here is the link to the post containing photos of the kids at four of the shooting stations on Saturday...  Part I, if you will.

Here are the pictures from Sunday...




This is Sassy.  She's the friendliest pit I know.  She's getting old and she's about as deaf as a post.  That's kind of what one would expect of a dog living on a shooting range.  Her daughter Precious (my favorite of the two) died this spring, one of the victims of some Chinese folks adding poison to dog food ingredients.   Hey, thanks, you godless commies.



I got back from breakfast a little early before the kids, so I gave her some attention.  Sassy was wearing a big grin after I gave her a small steak and rubbed her belly.  Here she is in her most vicious state.

Okay, back to business.



Here are about 90% of the kids at the camp.  A few had to leave before we got around to the group picture.  Good kids.





As one might imagine, the kids were abuzz at the thirteen guns that were to be given away later in the afternoon.  Ninety kids, 13 guns...  Imagine, your kid goes to a bargain camp, learns gun safety, responsibility and responsible firearm use and as an added bonus, has about a one in six chance of bringing home their very own gun...



The winners.  At this time, we aren't going to publish their names, but if you want to know, pick up a copy of GunNews, which is Guns Save Life's monthly journal.  Circulation: 9000.



Hey, thanks Mayor Daley for your gun event.  Your money bought these fine bolt-action rifles which will last a lifetime or two for these young adults.  Yes, your money was responsible for us giving guns to children.




"THANK YOU FOR SAVING A LIFE"...  That's right.  We're GUNS SAVE LIFE!


John

Mayor Daley = pwned

Nice prizes!  Those are some lucky kids.

fantastic post.


great work  

Awesome.

Looks like it was a great time.

That's awesome.  

call the media, maybe you'll get on Fox News!

Why don't they put stories like this on the news??????

This is one of the best things I have ever read!

Good job on a job well done!

We need alot more people in the world like you!

This story gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside

This update put an even bigger shit- eating grin on my face than the original thread!  Good Job!!

Please please please... send a thank you letter to the corporate sponsors and city telling them what you did!!  

great job!!

Quoted: Yes, your money was responsible for us giving guns to children.

Best line evar...

First, thanks for the kudos.  It felt pretty good giving those guns away and watching the kids shoot that ammunition the gun turn-in program purchased.

And, as I posted elsewhere, I thought the parents were going to give us a standing ovation when I told them who bought the ammo their kids shot all weekend...  and the two rifles we gave away to the "children"!

Addressing a couple of points:

1.  The Sun-Times was going to do an article on this as an exclusive and was considering splashing it across the front page.  Don't know why their interest went from red hot to ice cold.

2.  I'm sure Mayor Daley will at least hear about what we did.  Doubt he'll read any posts on Arfcom.  His aids might.

3.  Corporate sponsors...  Interestingly enough there were no big-name corporate sponsors listed... just a couple of little radio stations.  Nobody wanted to claim credit for coming up with 2/3s of a million dollars for the buying the guns.

PLEASE:  TELL YOUR FRIENDS WHAT WE DID.  The more people who know about giving the gun haters your junk for perfectly good money (some would say taking advantage of their largesse), the more this will happen.  Sooner or later, these will be known for what they are:  a waste of time and utterly ineffective at preventing crime (and at the same time a "money tree" for those of us who love guns!).  Those who sling dope don't sell their guns.   Gang bangers don't give up their guns.   And if you're stupid enough to surrender your best means of personal defense from violent crime, you deserve to reap what you've sown.

John

This story deserves some media attnetion.

ETA - Oh, and that dog is going to eat you alive one day.

Good going ! Next, figure out a way to get EBR's for those kids !

Man that's awesome!!!

You realize those pictures just caused numerous liberal sheep to stroke out. Keep up the good work!!!

This is one of the most awesome posts i have ever read at AR15.com!!

Good job! Those look like some really happy kids with some really nice rifles.

BUT BUT

WHY ISN'T THERE A MASS ACCIDENTAL CHILDREN'S DEATH MASSACRE?!%?#??#@%?

WHY?!$?

Brilliant!  This is a model for all of us to follow!  How about a vast right-wing conspiracy to utilize every buyback program in a similar fashion?

You should black out that card number before someone tries to use it.

I just bought some ammo using that card. Thanks.

Yes definatly send it to fox news!!!


FREE

Quoted: call the media, maybe you'll get on Fox News!

Quoted: i15.tinypic.com/6627rrm.jpg

Hey now, be nice to the southpaws !  

Another bump....

Has this been sent to Fox news yet??

FREE

Outfuckingstanding!
Way to turn the tables on those assholes!

Good job! I'm still laughing at them.

Templar for mayor.

free bump

Absolutely the coolest thing EVER!

Gun buy backs are awesome. Trade in your old for the new!

This thread has made my year!

I looked for a link and didn't find it to send it to FoxNews.

I did send it to Neal Boortz tho.

John

Any idea if any of this will make the NRA INSIGHTS magazine that NRA Junior members recieve?

Great idea

"Not bad for a poodle shooter and a pop bottle."

I think this is what is referred to as

"unintended consequences"


Someone didn't think this buy back scheme through well enough.... Morons.

best post ever.

i mean it.

First If you hear about a buy back MAKE A GD POST ABOUT IT BEFORE HAND !!!!!


Second, after they hear about this they will just start handing out toys r us giftcards or smoething, ..... sneakers like the one in orlando.

Quoted: Any idea if any of this will make the NRA INSIGHTS magazine that NRA Junior members recieve?

Not sure.  Sue Darnall sends the pics to the NRA, but I'm not sure where they are published.  They are some pretty decent photos, so foo on them if they don't want to use them.  Photo releases are part of the registration paperwork I believe.

Sue also won, FWIW, the Marion P Hammer Award last year from the NRA.  She really is a remarkable woman!

John

That's the happiest thing I've read in a while. Great job!!!!

- That is priceless!!

Quoted: fantastic post. great work

+ 1,000,000


Very impressive in deed.