{"id":214851,"date":"2025-04-08T17:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=214851"},"modified":"2025-10-21T07:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:52:05","slug":"chicago-buyback-blunder-glock-turned-in-ends-up-in-teens-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/chicago-buyback-blunder-glock-turned-in-ends-up-in-teens-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Buyback Blunder: Glock Turned In, Ends Up In Teen&#8217;s Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-yoast-seo-estimated-reading-time yoast-reading-time__wrapper\"><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__icon\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-icon=\"clock\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" style=\"display:inline-block;vertical-align:-0.1em\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" stroke-width=\"2\" d=\"M12 8v4l3 3m6-3a9 9 0 11-18 0 9 9 0 0118 0z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__spacer\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:1em\"><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__descriptive-text\">Estimated reading time: <\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__reading-time\">4<\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__time-unit\"> minutes<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can\u2019t make this up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colion Noir just dropped a truth bomb about how dysfunctional gun buyback programs really are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a jaw-dropping <a href=\"https:\/\/illinoisanswers.org\/2025\/04\/04\/gun-turned-over-to-chicago-police-buyback-wound-up-with-teenager\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chicago-buyback-blunder-glock-turned-in-ends-up-in-teens-hands\" title=\"Chicago Buyback Blunder: Glock Turned In, Ends Up In Teen's Hands\">report<\/a> Noir dissected, a <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/brand\/glock\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chicago-buyback-blunder-glock-turned-in-ends-up-in-teens-hands\" title=\"Chicago Buyback Blunder: Glock Turned In, Ends Up In Teen's Hands\">Glock<\/a> handed over to the Chicago Police Department during a gun buyback event somehow disappeared inside the precinct and magically resurfaced a year later\u2014in the hands of a 16-year-old fleeing a crime scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Guns At Buyback Ends Up Back On Streets In 16-Year-Old Hands\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XVbJ5Dsn6-Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s right. A gun that was supposed to be &#8220;off the streets&#8221; ended up right back on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Noir\u2019s own words, \u201cat best, <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/canada-announces-first-steps-for-banned-firearm-buyback\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chicago-buyback-blunder-glock-turned-in-ends-up-in-teens-hands\" title=\"Chicago Buyback Blunder: Glock Turned In, Ends Up In Teen's Hands\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"755\">gun buybacks<\/a> are a dog and pony show\u2014at worst, they\u2019re a scam.\u201d This latest story isn\u2019t just proof, it\u2019s a public service announcement about what happens when feel-good policy collides with bureaucratic negligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The kicker? The City of Chicago is simultaneously <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/chicago-expands-lawsuit-against-glock\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chicago-buyback-blunder-glock-turned-in-ends-up-in-teens-hands\" title=\"Chicago Buyback Blunder: Glock Turned In, Ends Up In Teen's Hands\">suing<\/a> Glock for violence on the streets, while their own department\u2019s mishandling of a turned-in Glock <em>re-armed those streets<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-see-also-chicago-expands-lawsuit-against-glock\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/chicago-expands-lawsuit-against-glock\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chicago-buyback-blunder-glock-turned-in-ends-up-in-teens-hands\" title=\"Chicago Buyback Blunder: Glock Turned In, Ends Up In Teen's Hands\">Chicago Expands Lawsuit Against Glock<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can\u2019t blame Noir for going off. He&#8217;s been calling these <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/gun-buybacks-double-down-or-save-taxpayer-cash\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chicago-buyback-blunder-glock-turned-in-ends-up-in-teens-hands\" title=\"Chicago Buyback Blunder: Glock Turned In, Ends Up In Teen's Hands\">programs out for years<\/a>\u2014useless PR stunts that make for flashy headlines but do nothing to stop violent crime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As he points out, gang members aren\u2019t lining up to swap their <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/feds-take-down-pro-gun-podcaster-navy-veteran-for-illegal-machine-gun-possession\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chicago-buyback-blunder-glock-turned-in-ends-up-in-teens-hands\" title=\"Chicago Buyback Blunder: Glock Turned In, Ends Up In Teen's Hands\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"756\">illegal machine guns<\/a> 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\u2019s attic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And sometimes? They\u2019re turning in valuable firearms that mysteriously vanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s 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\u2014these programs continue, untouched, uncorrected, and dangerously na\u00efve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noir called it like it is: \u201cCriminal gun restocking events.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chicago\u2019s own <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/gun-buybacks-dont-reduce-crime-says-new-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chicago-buyback-blunder-glock-turned-in-ends-up-in-teens-hands\" title=\"Chicago Buyback Blunder: Glock Turned In, Ends Up In Teen's Hands\">data<\/a> confirms what most of us already know: these buybacks don\u2019t catch the people driving gun violence. Instead, they end up being feel-good scams that make communities think something\u2019s being done, while the system itself leaks like a sieve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2014on the taxpayer&#8217;s dime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong><em>*** <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chicago-buyback-blunder-glock-turned-in-ends-up-in-teens-hands\" title=\"Chicago Buyback Blunder: Glock Turned In, Ends Up In Teen's Hands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a> ***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colion Noir just dropped a truth bomb about how dysfunctional gun buyback programs really 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