Gun from Gun Buyback Back on the Streets

What happens to guns turned into a Chicago PD gun buyback? Not what you expect. ‘Where is the Glock?’ Gun turned over to Chicago police wound up in the hands of a teenager

St. Sabina Catholic Church is one of the more anti-gun parishes in the city. Maybe in the country. I read a lot of stories about stuff around St. Sabina, but then I pay a lot of attention to news from the Chicago area.

A gun buyback was held in December 2023 at church. A number of guns were turned in, including a Glock, that several officers were admiring as being in great condition.

That day was marked by excitement, confusion and ultimately chaos after one cop inventorying the weapons at a police station noticed something unusual. A Glock handgun that cops had been admiring was missing.

A tag identifying the gun had been slipped onto another one, and an envelope for that gun was soon found in the trash. In an office full of cops assigned to inventory the guns and keep them secure, someone had walked off with the Glock.

Now if a cop walked off with the Glock, took it home and put it in his gun safe, that would have been bad enough, but that isn't what happened.

Police say they found the stolen gun nearly a year later after chasing down a 16-year-old boy. He had allegedly been pulling on car door handles in South Shore, about 5 miles from the church.

So a cop took the gun, and realizing its value, sold it back out onto the streets. Or so it appears to me.

This isn't the first time something like this has happened. Chicago cops did little to investigate how gun a judge turned in to be destroyed ended up at a crime scene

The revolver that Cook County Judge William Stewart Boyd turned in at a Chicago police gun buyback resurfaced at the scene of a fatal police shooting in Cicero in 2012. Police said it would be “difficult and unwise” to interview anyone involved in the buyback and closed the investigation.

Why "difficult and unwise?" It couldn't be because to continue the investigation might bring to light how corrupt the PD is, and how stuidly useless the gun buybacks are, not could it? No. I'm sure that's not the case at all.

It's clear, that the record keeping around gun buybacks in Chicago is, or at least has been, problematic. If you think these are the only 2 times something like this happened, well I certainly don't think that. I believe these are only 2 times that the issue made it into the news.

This is the Colion Noir video Guns At Buyback Ends Up Back On Streets In 16-Year-Old Hands. It's a 9 minute video, so grab a coffee.