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You can’t make this up.
Colion Noir just dropped a truth bomb about how dysfunctional gun buyback programs really are.
According to a jaw-dropping report Noir dissected, a Glock handed over to the Chicago Police Department during a gun buyback event somehow disappeared inside the precinct and magically resurfaced a year later—in the hands of a 16-year-old fleeing a crime scene.
That’s right. A gun that was supposed to be “off the streets” ended up right back on them.
In Noir’s own words, “at best, gun buybacks are a dog and pony show—at worst, they’re a scam.” This latest story isn’t just proof, it’s a public service announcement about what happens when feel-good policy collides with bureaucratic negligence.
Here’s the timeline: the Glock was collected at a buyback event in 2023, admired by officers for its condition, and then vanished. In 2024, police pulled the same firearm off a teenager involved in a car crash.
The kicker? The City of Chicago is simultaneously suing Glock for violence on the streets, while their own department’s mishandling of a turned-in Glock re-armed those streets.
SEE ALSO: Chicago Expands Lawsuit Against Glock
You can’t blame Noir for going off. He’s been calling these programs out for years—useless PR stunts that make for flashy headlines but do nothing to stop violent crime.
As he points out, gang members aren’t lining up to swap their illegal machine guns for Target gift cards. The people showing up at these events are usually turning in rusty relics, broken pistols, or guns they found in grandpa’s attic.
And sometimes? They’re turning in valuable firearms that mysteriously vanish.
It’s happened before. In 2007, a Cook County judge handed over a firearm to a buyback. Five years later, that same gun was used in a fatal police shooting. And yet—these programs continue, untouched, uncorrected, and dangerously naïve.
Noir called it like it is: “Criminal gun restocking events.”
Chicago’s own data confirms what most of us already know: these buybacks don’t catch the people driving gun violence. Instead, they end up being feel-good scams that make communities think something’s being done, while the system itself leaks like a sieve.
Colion Noir nailed it. Until cities like Chicago stop wasting time blaming manufacturers and start actually prosecuting violent offenders, the rest of us are stuck watching these same criminals get rearmed—on the taxpayer’s dime.
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It’s hard to have any sympathy for people living in these large metropolitan cities with these kind of problems. WHY? Because the very people they voted into office ran on the ‘BLM’ and ‘defund the police’ mandates that have driven the crime statics through the roof. You want to live in a shithole city with a lawless society? Fine – enjoy! You get what you pay for …
Not that long ago Texas was a Democrat state and California was Republic and the 2A was safe in both states. I often read posts like yours and wonder what the authors would do if they had a job or family to safeguard in a state that was descending into the leftism. Would the people who have “no sympathy” cut and run from their homes if the political winds shift against them? How often should people be willing to run?
What state is completely safe right now? Should states that are dominated by democrat cities and counties be forsaken? Should the agriculture and military bases of California fall into perpetual domination by the left who usurps most everything and builds little or nothing? So, how safe is the 2A if all the nation’s 2A supporters are living in a handful of states?
Did the millions of 2A supporters in Illinois get what they deserved when they defied the tyrant governor (Jay Bob Pritzker) and told him to come take it with the un-Constitutional PICA? Illinois would be Republican and a true “Land Lincoln” state if it was NOT for Cook County. How hard would it be for your own state to be flooded by illegal immigrants and flipped to blue because of one city or county? That is more than just theory, it was well under way throughout the US.
Be happy if you are so lucky to live in a state that right now may strongly support the 2A but be a little slower to condemn those are NOT the enemy. There are lots of 2A supporters behind enemy lines right now and many of those people have better perspectives than the many complacent gun owners who on NOT under direct threat right now.
“No man is an island entire of itself…”
-John Donne
We all know a police officer kept it for his personal collection. It happens all the time.
We know what happened. Somebody in that police department like that Glock and took it home.
I’m sure a lot of firearms in the US that are taken into either permanent or “temporary” police custody or are voluntarily turned in never make it into the police inventory.
I bet a lot of cops out there have nice gun collections that they didn’t have to pay for.
WE all know these things to be true, but the lie told over and over by those who would ban guns (we know who you are) sells to nongunners fearful of crime in the streets. As long as it gets votes, these charades will continue.
The Glock was NOT “lost.” The Glock was stolen from the CPD by a member of the CPD. What kind of a LEO would betray his oath and trust to rip off a plastic firearm that would net a few hundred dollars? This Glock could have been used to kill the CPD officer that arrested the youth carrying the gun. Luckily, after he observed checking for unlocked car doors an arrest was made after a chase without any loss of life.
the gun buyback loophole
I love it !
That was quite witty , Sir .