CHICAGO (CBS 2) ― Local leaders are asking Chicagoans to turn in their guns. They're hoping for a big turn out at the city's latest gun turn-in day.
"And what we're doing in America, we're basically killing our own, especially younger people," Mayor Richard M. Daley said.
As more than a dozen of Chicago's at-risk kids stood nearby, the mayor and the police superintendent announced another gun turn-in day in the city.
"Today I'm asking every resident of Chicago to turn in their firearm -- shotgun, rifles, automatic, semi automatic, pistol, revolver… No questions asked," Daley said.
As they did last year, 25 churches will be collecting guns on Saturday, July 26, and giving back a $100 prepaid MasterCard for each weapon.
Last year, a record 6,700 guns were handed over.
"If we can get one gun off the street, one gun out of the homes and save just one life, that one life and this one gun being turned in does make a difference," said the Rev. Roosevelt Watkins of Bethlehem Star MB Church.
Pam Bosley joined in the appeal. She lost her son in a senseless gun murder in a church parking lot.
"Once you take our children's lives, we're devastated," Bosley said. "Our lives are taken, our hopes, our dreams, our joy."
"If you ask anyone of these family members here today, they will tell you that they want fewer guns on the street, not more," said Chicago Police Dept. Supt. Jody Weis.
Daley reminded Chicagoans that, for the moment at least, Chicago's ban on gun possession has not been overturned by the courts and is still in effect.
The city's gun turn-in program has netted more than 11,000 illegal guns since 2006.
COMPLETE LIST OF TURN-IN LOCATIONS:
St. Pancratius
2957 W. 40th Place
773.523.5666
Fellowship M.B.C. Church
4543 S. Princeton Ave.
773.373.8537
Chicago Islamic Center
3357 W. 63rd Street
773.436.8083
Greater Salem Baptist Church
215 W. 71st Street
773.874.2325
First Church of Deliverance
4315 S. Wabash Ave.
773.373.7700
Tremont Baptist Church
4649 S. Prairie Ave.
773.548.2011
Liberation Christian Center
6810 S. Ashland Ave.
773.436.7940
St. Rita Cascia
6243 S. Fairfield Ave.
773.434.9600
St. Sabina Church
1210 W. 78th Place
773.483.4300
New Vision of Faith Ministries
447 W. 120th Street
773.264.3020
Beth Eden Missionary Baptist Church
11121 S. Loomis Street
773.233.6953
Bethlehem Star Missionary Baptist Church
9231-33 S. Cottage Grove Ave.
773.487.8441
Trinity All Nations
9600 S. Vincennes Ave.
773.238.1174
St. Stephen's Lutheran Church
8500 S. Maryland Ave.
773.994.2700
Uptown Baptist Church
1011 W. Wilson Ave.
773.784.2922
Wayman AME Church
509 W. Elm Street
312.943.8530
United Church of Rogers Park
1514 W. Morse Ave.
773.761.2500
St. Agnes Catholic Church
2651 S. Central Park Ave.
773.522.0142
St. Agatha Catholic Church
1400 S. Kedzie Ave.
773.522.3050
Peoples Church of the Harvest
3570 W. 5th Ave.
773.533.6877
Revival Fellowship COGIC
2810 W. Washington Blvd.
773.533.4110
Heritage International Christian Church
5312 W. North Avenue
773.237.9600
Grace and Peace Center
2100 N. Kildare Ave.
773.489.5949
New Life Covenant
1665 N. Mozart Street
773.384.7113
Heirs of the Promise Church
4821 W. Chicago Ave.
773.342.5377
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