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Chicago Police Have Been Seizing an Illegal Gun Every 75 Minutes This Year
http://www.thetrace.org/2015/07/chicago-police-have-been-seizing-an-illegal-gun-every-75-minutes-this-year/
75% of crime guns come from out of state and outside Chicago city limits.
A study released last year by the city found that almost 60 percent of guns recovered at Chicago crime scenes were first bought in states — like neighboring Indiana and Wisconsin — that do not require background checks for Internet or gun show sales. Of the remaining crime guns, nearly half were purchased at just three Chicago-area gun shops: Chuck’s in Riverdale, Midwest Sporting Goods in Lyons, and Shore Galleries in Lincolnwood. More than 3,000 crime guns were traced to the three stores alone.
75% of crime guns come from out of state and outside Chicago city limits.
A study released last year by the city found that almost 60 percent of guns recovered at Chicago crime scenes were first bought in states — like neighboring Indiana and Wisconsin — that do not require background checks for Internet or gun show sales. Of the remaining crime guns, nearly half were purchased at just three Chicago-area gun shops: Chuck’s in Riverdale, Midwest Sporting Goods in Lyons, and Shore Galleries in Lincolnwood. More than 3,000 crime guns were traced to the three stores alone.
Gunners will tell us that Chicago has the toughest gun laws and they don't work. What they won't admit is that loose gun laws in one state supplies guns to states with tough laws.
Chuck's Gun Shop is infamous for supplying crime guns to Chicago. Yet nothing can be done about it because the PLCAA makes it damn hard to prove negligence worthy of prosecution and because the BATF is under funded, under maned, and legally prohibited from doing some things necessary to shut down bad apple gun sellers. Thanks NRA!!
When a gun shop is punished the road is a long and winding one. Take the case of Elizabeth Shirley v. Baxter Springs Gun & Pawn Shop in Kansas. A convicted felon named Russell Graham and his grandmother entered the store. Graham picked out a gun and left the store while his grandmother filled out the paperwork and took the gun out to Graham who used it later in the day to kill his eight year old son and himself. Ms Shirley, mother to Graham's son, sued claiming that the seller knew or should have known it was a straw purchase. It took ten years and was finally resolved at the State Supreme Court which awarded Ms Shirley $132,000. At least now we know what the life of an eight year old boy is worth. http://www.thetrace.org/2015/07/kansas-gun-store-lawsuit-settlement/
All thanks to the PLCAA which protects gun makers and sellers from liability. No other commodity has the protections offered to guns.
When is a gun policy that results in 30,000 deaths, 100,000 injuries at a cost of $200 billion to the taxpayer going to get the attention it deserves?
Support a gun control organization of your choice any way you can.
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