Posted on 05/10/2014 12:04:03 PM PDT by Red Steel
Armed and extremely dangerous. Some heavy weapons have fallen into the wrong hands in Chicago– and police desperately want to get them back.
Perhaps ironically, these semi-automatic rifles are very similar to what police themselves use. Thirteen of them were stolen from a train parked in Englewood– complete with their high-capacity 30-round magazines.
Special Agent Tom Ahern, ATF:“They’re high-capacity rifles. They’re very dangerous when they’re in the wrong hands.”
The Smith and Wesson M and P 15 Sport Rifle– virtually identical to the M-4 assault rifle U.S. troops use at war, police use to keep the peace; or citizens use to create chaos, in the AR-15 Bushmaster Incarnation. That’s the now-infamous weapon used in the massacre at sandy hook elementary school.
Sometime between Sunday and Tuesday, 13 of them were grabbed from a shipment of 50, from a Norfolk Southern freight container parked at this Englewood rail yard.
Community Activist Andrew Holmes: “I’m demanding that a thorough investigation be done and the security firm that’s here be removed until this case is resolved just in case this was an inside job.”
Investigators seem to feel otherwise, that the crooks had no idea what they were taking. It’s not a security firm that works here, but Norfolk Southern’s own police force, now working with Chicago police and the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms to get the guns back
They fire what’s known as a ‘NATO bullet’ essentially military caliber– 5.56 millimeter and while they don’t ship with those bullets; they do ship with magazines that carry 30 of them at a time, firing them off as fast as you can pull the trigger.
Tom Ahern “And we’re just hoping that these guns don’t get in the hands of more violent offenders that are gonna use them in crimes.”
They were just passing through on a train from Smith and Wesson’s factory in Springfield, Massachusetts to a licensed dealer in Minnesota.
What has law enforcement and politicians here so concerned is that these are exactly the kind of weapons and magazines they’re trying to keep off the streets of Chicago.
That would be STANDARD capacity trolls.
this type of event always preceeds a city election where a left winger is running for office. see nyc, Miami, la, Chicago etc.
HI-larious!!!
This guy is a real gun scribe, huh? Like Jeff Cooper and Jack O’Connor.
Absolutely, and 20 rounds for 7.62.
Sinaloa preferred. They own Chicago, having purchased it from a Kenyan.
This sure reads like satire, or they’ve got some *really* flaky people in Chicago.
Nope. No bias there.
But they are NOT dangerous when they are in the hands of that wonderful government that we can trust so completely eh? Crapola!!!
The writing reeks.
I’m not any kind of gun expert but I’m pretty sure that “heavy weapons” are things like mortars and M.-2s
Yes, this guy evidently thinks that “citizens” = “wrong hands”
Wasn't that proven false?
What a dolt. Obvious answer—————ban transporting these evil articles of war through the state of ILLinoise by any mode of transport. In fact, any aircraft transporting these items would be prohibited from flying in ILLinoise air space as well. In fact, any spacecraft with these items on board may not orbit over ILLinoise. See. Simple.
Horsecrap. Holder's Peeps couldn't afford any AR-15 type target rifles and any idiot can tell you, you will be seen carrying a rifle out in the open.
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