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Related: About this forumIllegal gun seller gets six years
Senior Assistant State's Attorney Pamela Esposito said one of the guns Burke sold on the city streets was used in the July 2011 shooting spree in Washington Park that left one teen dead and three others wounded.
According to police, last years a task force of agents of the U.S. Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and local police were contacted by an informant who told them that Burke was dealing guns. Police said the informant told them that Burke had been bragging that he had a supplier who could get him as many guns as he wanted.
The task force subsequently used the informant to purchase nine guns from Burke including a Chinese-made assault rifle, police said. None of the guns had been previously reported stolen in the state. When the informant asked Burke where he got the guns from police said Burke told him he got them from a supplier "down south."
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MrYikes
(720 posts)then I guess I got sloppy and could only get 6 inch groups last week. It was still a lot of fun to shoot. But, but, but, I was next to a guy shooting a 50 cal., which does have an effect.
geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)but that's completely off topic and irrelevant to the op.
Hmmmm, wondering if the "down south" comment will lead anywhere.
PavePusher
(15,374 posts)Juries: The only known form of mammalian life with multiple bodies and fewer brains than bodies.
Remmah2
(3,291 posts)When the rule of law gets flushed we'll descend into chaos and anarchy.
former-republican
(2,163 posts)and the GD crowd thought that was an appropriate statement.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1491313
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,481 posts)secular spam
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)about toilet paper wiping up the rear.
Remmah2
(3,291 posts)Maybe this is why true criminals do what they do. The punishment does not act as a deterrent.
Atypical Liberal
(5,412 posts)Sounds like a pretty good deterrent to me!
I'm curious what exactly was illegal about the sale, though. Because he crossed state lines with firearms, maybe?
Remmah2
(3,291 posts)He may not have obtained them legally and was clearly selling them illegally. After six years and possibly out early this guy just might go back into business. I'm curious if he plea bargained and gave up an illegal source as a trade. Finally the ATF doing their job.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)That's what he got CAUGHT selling.
Triple that sentence. Also tack on felony murder for the deaths associated with the guns he knowingly sold to ineligible recipients.
Atypical Liberal
(5,412 posts)>That's what he got CAUGHT selling.
That is what he was convicted for selling.
No department of precrimes, please.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Could simply assign the upper end of the limit on sentencing, instead of being lenient.
Atypical Liberal
(5,412 posts)I think that's harsh enough for selling some guns.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Because they enabled further crimes to be committed, and that resulted in maimed and dead humans.
GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)I bet he didn't pay sales taxes on those guns or income taxes on his profits either.
Atypical Liberal
(5,412 posts)Remmah2
(3,291 posts)Watch the spin..............
