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XDTalk RSS · 07-19-2008, 07:50 AM

Mayor Daley wants to raise $1 million to buy back guns and remove them from Chicago streets, but the latest in a string of corporate fund-raisers got off to a slow start. Sources said former Board of Education President Michael Scott was asked to co-sign a wave of fund-raising letters and make fund-raising phone calls after the initial response was lukewarm from a business community that's... [Chicago Sun-Times, via gunpolicy.org ]

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LUVMYSIGP225 · 07-19-2008, 07:59 AM

They would be better off pumping millions into a pre-emptive sterilization program. Start with the women that are breeding these scumbags, and remove their innards.

mp3mogul · 07-19-2008, 04:19 PM

If they are good guns, I'll give em 5.00 each! Let me get in on it... LOL!

texas_rebel_1980 · 07-19-2008, 04:21 PM

yeah, we could walk up and down the line and offer a little more than what the program is, bet you could find a few steals, but mostly junk. what always gets me is don't they think people will steal guns just to sell to the morons???

yeahYeah · 07-19-2008, 04:28 PM

Perhaps guns for drugs would work better in Chicago.

**eric_t12** · 07-19-2008, 06:43 PM

maybe they could put the money to better use, like, say, catching more criminals.

Joeywhat · 07-19-2008, 06:46 PM

I hope that, in 20 years or so, after putting 100,000 rounds through my XD, there's a gun buyback in Detroit. I'd LOVE to get a couple hundo for some sad, depressed and overused handgun I have laying around...and use it to buy something new

yeahYeah · 07-19-2008, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Joeywhat

I hope that, in 20 years or so, after putting 100,000 rounds through my XD, there's a gun buyback in Detroit. I'd LOVE to get a couple hundo for some sad, depressed and overused handgun I have laying around...and use it to buy something new

in 20 years, you may not be able to buy a handgun anymore...

**mvician** · 07-19-2008, 07:01 PM

I can just see the scumbags, gangbangers, criminals lining up to turn in the guns for cash.

NOT !

**eric_t12** · 07-19-2008, 07:01 PM

...definately.

the rate things are going, every major city will have such strict laws that handguns will be too expensive to own.

'bullet serializing' anyone?

07-19-2008, 07:50 AM	#1
XDTalk RSS XDTalk Robot News Feed Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 2,360	Mayor Asks Chicago Businesses to Raise $1million for City Gun Buyback Mayor Daley wants to raise $1 million to buy back guns and remove them from Chicago streets, but the latest in a string of corporate fund-raisers got off to a slow start. Sources said former Board of Education President Michael Scott was asked to co-sign a wave of fund-raising letters and make fund-raising phone calls after the initial response was lukewarm from a business community that's... [Chicago Sun-Times, via gunpolicy.org ] More...

07-19-2008, 07:59 AM	#2
LUVMYSIGP225 XDTalk 5K Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Center of the Mind Posts: 6,462	They would be better off pumping millions into a pre-emptive sterilization program. Start with the women that are breeding these scumbags, and remove their innards. __________________ Keep your friends close, and your enemies embalmed.

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mp3mogul XDTalk 500 Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Salem, Virginia Posts: 667	If they are good guns, I'll give em 5.00 each! Let me get in on it... LOL! __________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety. Nor, are they likely to end up with either. Benjamin Franklin

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texas_rebel_1980 XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Corpus Christi Texas Posts: 1,563	yeah, we could walk up and down the line and offer a little more than what the program is, bet you could find a few steals, but mostly junk. what always gets me is don't they think people will steal guns just to sell to the morons??? __________________ It may be 5'clock somewhere, but its Beer Thirty here!!! Don't Look At Me, I Voted for the Old Guy with the Pit Bull!

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yeahYeah XDTalk 10K Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Vegas Posts: 10,771	Perhaps guns for drugs would work better in Chicago. __________________ MOΛΩN ΛABÉ "You got on British Knights and I ain't seen anyone wear those since 1987" - Red (Pineapple Express) Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who comes near that precious jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. When you give up that force, you are ruined. ~ Patrick Henry

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eric_t12 XDTalk 3K Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: SD Posts: 3,814	maybe they could put the money to better use, like, say, catching more criminals. __________________ FBI: Gun Owners are Potential Terrorists Our Economic Future: GAO 21st Century Challenges The Police Have No Duty To Protect You VFW Life Member GOA Life Member "There are lots of problems, but if you destroy the dollar, you're going to destroy a worldwide economy, and that's what we're doing." Ron Paul - Speech on the house floor 29SEP2008 opposing the reworked economic 'rescue' plan

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Joeywhat XDTalk 3K Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Dearborn Heights, MI Posts: 3,000	I hope that, in 20 years or so, after putting 100,000 rounds through my XD, there's a gun buyback in Detroit. I'd LOVE to get a couple hundo for some sad, depressed and overused handgun I have laying around...and use it to buy something new __________________ XD45 Compact Springfield 1911 GI Rock Island 1911 - Wilson Internals RRA AR 15 - Build in progress Stag AR 15 - Build in progress Mosin Nagant M44 http://migunowners.org Michigan Gun Owners - Dedicated Grass Roots

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mvician XDTalk 3K Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NW Indiana Posts: 3,643	I can just see the scumbags, gangbangers, criminals lining up to turn in the guns for cash. NOT !

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