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Chicago Buy-back Trashes 6,705 Guns, Assault Weapons: 5,960 Handguns
22 July 2007
Chicago Sun-Times
Maybe it was because of Schanna Gayden, 13, killed in a park, buying fruit at a vendor's cart.
Or because of Enrique Chavez, 14, killed in a hail of gunfire while joyriding in his uncle's van.
Or maybe the inspiration was Blair Holt, 16, killed by a spray of bullets on a CTA bus.
"I think it's all of them — Siretha White, Starkesia Reed, Terrell Bosley … The list goes on," First Deputy Supt. Dana Starks said Saturday of the whopping 6,705 guns recovered in a... (GunPolicy.org)