The Chicago Police Department held an event on Saturday in which residents received $100 gift cards if they turned in their guns with no questions asked.
Illinois Attorney General candidate Thomas DeVore discusses if Gov. J.B. Pritzker's proposed bail reform law will open the floodgates for more crime in Chicago on 'The Evening Edit.'held an event over the weekend that paid residents to turn over their guns.
The event, held at Saint Ida Church in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood on Saturday, gave residents a $100 prepaid gift card for each gun they turned in and $10 for BB-guns, air-guns, and replica guns,Chicagoans who attended the event were not asked how they acquired the guns if they turned them in, and there was no limit to how many guns each person could exchange for a gift card.
A spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department said that 103 firearms were turned in during the event along with 19 replica guns. "Gun turn-ins give the people the ability to turn in a gun with no questions asked." Glen Brooks, director of community policing for the Chicago Police Department, told the outlet. "We’re not asking whether the gun was found, whether it was left, whether you inherited it, it does not matter.
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