Chicago Buyback Blunder: Glock Turned In, Ends Up In Teen’s Hands

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.

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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