Posted: 7/18/2007 11:00:13 PM EDT
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GUN TURN IN INFORMATION SHEET WHEN: Saturday July 21, 2007 TIME: 10:00am to 4:00pm WHERE: 23 locations –see attached sheet WHAT: a “NO QUESTIONS ASKED” gun turn in HOW: Anyone can bring an unloaded gun, (firearm- shotgun, rifle, automatic, semi- automatic, pistol or revolver) to any one of 23 locations and receive a $100 Prepaid MasterCard per gun. Attendees may bring in a BB, replica or air gun and receive a $10 Prepaid MasterCard per gun ****IMPORTANT NOTE ALL GUNS SHOULD BE UNLOADED**** FAQ 1. WILL ANYONE ASK HOW OR WHERE I GOT THE GUN? NO, this is a “NO QUESTIONS ASKED” gun turn in. The most important thing is that we get the gun off of the streets. No one will ask any questions about you or the gun. You will not have to provide any personal information. 2. WHERE CAN I USE THE PREPAID MASTERCARD? At any of the 23 million locations that Prepaid MasterCards are accepted, except at gun shops.  You can use the Prepaid MasterCard to pay for gas, groceries, bills ...etc. 3. HOW MANY GUNS CAN I TURN IN? Every gun brought to a gun turn in site will be accepted and each gun will receive one Prepaid MasterCard. 4. WHAT HAPPENS TO THE GUN AFTER I TURN THEM IN? All guns are destroyed and never will be returned to the streets. 5. CAN I TURN IN A BB, REPLICA OR AIR GUN? Yes, each BB, replica and air gun will receive a $10 Prepaid MasterCard. However TOY GUNS WILL NOT receive a Prepaid MasterCard. 6. DO I HAVE TO GIVE MY NAME TO MASTERCARD IN ORDER TO USE THE CARD? No, the Prepaid MasterCard works just like any other prepaid gift card. 7. WHAT IF I CAN’T MAKE IT BETWEEN 10AM AND 4PM ON THE GUN TURN IN DAY SATURDAY, JULY 21ST? You can always turn in a gun to a police station or call 911. However in order to receive the $100 Prepaid MasterCard, the gun has to be turned in on Saturday July 21 st at one of the 23 locations during the gun turn in hours of 10am to 4pm. 8. WILL I GET ANY MONEY FOR MY BULLETS, MAGAZINES OR HOLSTERS? We will gladly and safely dispose of any and all ammunitions and bullets. However we are unable to give any money for these items. 9. CAN I TURN IN PART OF A GUN OR GUN PARTS FOR A PREPAID MASTERCARD? We will take any gun parts. But Prepaid MasterCards will only be given for whole guns, not parts of guns. |
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10. How do I get additional information? If you need more information please call the CAPS Implementation Office at 312-747-9987. Here's the City Of Chicago Website. To download the PDF with all the locations, click HEREegov.cityofchicago.org/city/webportal/home.do and look in the left hand bar titled "I Want To...." and click on "Turn In My Gun  you'll download the PDF with all the above info as well as locations - good times...Mike |
Any guns worth anything will end up in the homes of the brass. What BS these buybacks are. |
How can they prevent it from being used at a gunshop? |
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Here is another article with a useful phone number to get the list of drop off points... Chicago again to offer gun-buyback program
I'll probably go to St. Sabina's because I went there last year and already have the directions printed out. I'll say hi to "Father Mike" for y'all. 
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I attended a meeting Tuesday night and listened to a guy talking about this. He has a nice collection of old Japanese rifles from WWII that have an estimated value of $10 each to turn in for $100 each. He is going to use the proceeds to have a BBQ for the club. 
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I have an old rusted .25 acp I'll be taking in to a church at 9600 S. Vincennes. I used to live in the Morgan Park area, so I know I can find it. Get there early, before the cards run out. I plan on buying ammo :-) I wonder how many of those 100.00 cards are gonna get pocketed by "volunteers" at these churches. ckmorley |
The volunteers just do crowd control......the people taking the guns and handing out the cards were all plainclothes cops. The female ones were pretty cute, too. Just got back from Chicago.....the cops seemed sorta amused when I handed them seven used up revolvers and a rifle and shotgun but I got my cards. I was at St. Sabina's at 1100...about 20 people in line when I got there. Pretty much in and out in 20 minutes. They didn't look like they had all that many rifles this time, mostly well abused .22s and a SKS. They've definitely gotten better about how they administer it, last year I had to wait in line nearly an hour to get my rainchecks and then had to go back next week. Once I get them consolidated I'm going shopping for a LCD TV.....then I can start hunting for next year's candidates. 
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100.00 for my POS .25acp that I interited from my mom'd deceased BF. His dad was a CPD.......prolly his throwdown ;-) I plan on hitting Gander/Joliet tomm. for ammo :) Went to 96th /Vincennes.......passed by my old HS. Line was long. Mostly African Amer. Mostly long guns. Passed the time taking to two vets.. one WW2 one Vietnam. 90 minute wait. Local gunshop guy bought in 35 longarms.......prolly for the Chmpaign County guys.......yes 35 !!!!!!!!!! ckmorley |
How did they react to him rolling up with 35 rifles? I think I'll shoot for 10-15 guns for next year's turn in unless I get the opportunity to make a group buy.
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What a joke! I would'nt turn in my 25.00 dollar NEF shotgun for a 1000.00 dollar's to these gun grabbing anti 2nd amendmant right's M.........F........'s. All you guy's jumping for joy over a 100.00 gift card will be crying in your beer when the press announce's how successfull these thing's are and try's to use that as proof we need to ban gun's. Cause hell people are standing in line 90 min. just to give the damn things away!  |
I applaud your purity but I'll sell them all the junk I can find to haul up there..I cannot resist separating the fools from thier money. If it makes you fel better you can take the gift cards and buy a decent gun with them.
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I turned in a bunch of scrap metal today - have to head back next Saturday for the gift cards.  They were at just over 100 guns turned in when I stopped by. I didn't get a decent look at the "Goodie-Table" but it seemed like a lot of revolvers and a few shotguns. I was the only person dropping stuff off when I was there. It was a little awkward waiting for everything to get checked but it went pretty smoothly. Easiest cash I've made in a while Mike |
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The Fox news at 9 said 5000+ last night. That "journalist" byron harlon or whatever was giddy and could barely stifle a grin. He probably thinks this made a difference. I remember after the April 2006 buyback some felon's kid shot himself or his brother like two days later with the gun the criminal didn't turn in. They showed the guns, 700+ were "replicas" and most long guns were fudd junk, one shotgun had no barrel that I saw. I saw one underfolder AK, a couple of TEc-9s and thats about it. Of course the "mainstream" media called them all assault weapons... BTW tec-9 is such junk. Almost 6,000 handguns and assault weapons were turned over to Chicago police Saturday in exchange for $100 debit cards, officials said. www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-gunbuybackjul22,0,3454005.story |
| I see the anti's are trumping this up as another success. The last thing we need is more success story's on thier side. I would have been a whole lot happier today if instead of 5000+ guns being voluntarily handed over. We instead saw empty table's. I bet a whole lot of crook's are chuckling today knowing that thier potential victem's are unable to defend themselve's. FWIW. Have you all noticed. There is alway's an AK and a tech nine at these media event's? Maybe they keep a couple on hand just to display to the media? So they can say "See we got more of those evil spray from the hip killing machine's off the street". Now help us pass another law. One good thing is this little buy back cost the anti's a 1/2 million. Less money to spend on more damaging agenda's. |
| From what I saw yesterday they collected both junk and some nice collector stuff. I was shocked to see that the Chicago police officer that took my junk thought that a black powder pistol I took in WAS A BB GUN!!! All I can say is that my jaw dropped to the floor! I Had him read off the letters on the side of the gun that read .45 CALIBER BLACKPOWDER ONLY. He then said "Ok no problem". I almost cried when I saw a pre war colt 1911 in prestine condition. I did not see anything that they would consider an "assult weapon", all those tec 9's and the poly ak are guns they have confiscated in the past from gangbangers/criminals. When I walked in they looked very happy to see me (me being hispanic they probably thought I would surrender some nice stuff), not too happy when they saw what I had. They know their sucess is based on people like us who gave the JUNK. |
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Whats funny is these have nothing to do with getting guns off the street. It has to do with the gun grabbers getting media attention to further their agenda. If I had a rusted out POS gun that I was going to throw away I might do it as it would be like getting paid for throwing your trash away. If I had a perfect working order gun that was worth $50,$30,$20 or less I would'nt dare give it to these people. Did anyone find out if anyone got involved about this being illegal? Bringing guns downtown and some being "Assualt Weapons"? I'm sure the Blech-9 and the AK were there before they even opened the tables. |
From the Trib article:
The December buy-back paid only $50, which is why they got so many less. I doubt they'll go below $100 again.
Ya gotta get there early....I arrived at 1100 (which was later than I had intended) and St Sabina's still had plenty of $100 cards (but were out of $10 air gun cards), most likely they will be out of cards by noon most places.
They would trumpet it as a success if they got 100 guns. The only effect "buybacks" have is to get rid of all the junk guns in the area as people can get paid for something that they otherwise couldn't give away. 90% of what they get is junk, 5% decent guns given up by people who either don't know how or are unable to sell them legally, and maybe 5% is the sort of stuff they really want. Someone came in with a AR-15 last April when I was there, they got real excited when they saw it because they weren't getting that sort of stuff. It's more likely that some criminals are chuckling because they sent in some chump with weapons they used to murder someone and Chicago paid them to dispose of the evidence.
Most big-city cops are not gun people and actually know very little about them. At the April buyback I had to help one of them find the maker on some of them so he could process them so that he could get to me faster. It was pretty comical watching him looking all over a store-branded Mossberg .22 rifle (including down the bore) asking it "Who made you?" They seemed to be both amused and annoyed when I showed up yesterday with 9 busted weapons....they kept emphasizing the number nine as they passed me down the line to the lady with the cards.
I had with me a printout of the .pdf XmikeX found with the details of the buyback and Mapquest directions for St. Sabina's, my destination which I was sticking to like glue. I am confident I would not have been busted by the CPD if I got pulled over...the bad PR would have ruined everything for them. They do get small numbers of "assault weapons"...at the April Buyback the guy two behind me in line had a pre-ban AR-15 someone had stashed in the crawlspace under his house. This year a guy in line with me had a SKS that was in fairly good shape. |
