Gun Group Dumps Broken Guns At Police Buyback Event, Uses Cash For NRA Camp For KidsChicago gun buybacks have helped the group raise $12,000 for the children's shooting safety camp, an organizer saysPUBLISHED ON JUN 11, 2018 2:51PM CDT ENGLEWOOD, CHATHAM
Kelly Bauer @BauerJournalism Neighborhood reporter
https://blockclubchicago.org/2018/06/11/gun-group-dumps-broken-guns-at-police-buyback-event-uses-cash-for-nra-camp-for-kids/GRAND CROSSING — A gun rights group plans to use its profits from a Chicago Police “gun buyback†event to send children aged 10 to 16 to a shooting camp hosted by the National Rifle Association.
The group, Guns Save Life, brought home “thousands of dollars to use†for the camp after trading in guns at the June 2 event at New Life Covenant Church in Grand Crossing, said
John Boch, the executive director of Guns Save Life. Boch, of Downstate Bloomington, was able to trade in two guns for $100 each, and he said other group members who went to the buyback were also able to trade in guns for money.
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The guns Boch turns in at the events are “mostly scrap,†he said: They’re usually old and unusable, but even the newer ones that the Guns Save Life members turned in were all “broken down, all non-firing, missing parts and pieces.†Some appeared to have been through fires or rusted beyond use, he said.
“They had no effective value in the grand scheme of things,†Boch said. “We went up there to trade our unwanted firearms for perfectly good cash to send young people to a National Rifle Association summer gun camp to teach them about the safe and effective use of firearms.â€
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