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Study: Chicago Criminals Avoid Gun Shows, Internet Sales, Buy Guns On Street
breitbart.com ^ | 8/30/2015 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 08/31/2015 8:07:26 AM PDT by rktman

As for specifics regarding sources for purchasing guns, some of the inmates indicated that gangs have individuals with a Firearm Owners Identification Card who buy guns then sell them to gang members. Others indicated using “corrupt cops” who seize guns then “put them back on the street.”

The inmates made clear they do not walk into gun stores to buy guns. Which proves a point Breitbart News, Gun Owners of America, and other gun rights groups have made for years; namely, that background checks place a burden on law-abiding citizens which criminals easily avoid.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; chicago; guncontrol; illinois
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So, either the study is wrong or there's some nefarious BS going on here. Can you say gun show loophole? One solution that would put a stop to this activity would to be to pass an intergalactic background check law. That way these miscreants would never ever be able to obtain firearms. Oh crap. Musta forgot. THEY DON'T CARE about no steenkin' laws. Good thing bloomie and his idiots have managed to get this on the '16 NV ballot with that promise. I really, really, don't like these people.
1 posted on 08/31/2015 8:07:26 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

It’s the car trunk loophole.


2 posted on 08/31/2015 8:09:47 AM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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Criminals buy guns on the street? Imagine that!?!

/s


3 posted on 08/31/2015 8:11:59 AM PDT by PGR88
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More gun control laws will prevent that, right?


4 posted on 08/31/2015 8:12:15 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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-— The inmates made clear they do not walk into gun stores to buy guns. -—

I now have to rethink my entire worldview.


5 posted on 08/31/2015 8:13:12 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: rktman

Governments waste untold million$ (maybe billion$) conducting studies to find out what every American with half a brain already knows.


6 posted on 08/31/2015 8:13:32 AM PDT by Iron Munro (CITY: A liberal run holding pen for useless headcount.)
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To: BillyBonebrake

If you are black you are not a criminal under any circumstances. You are a “social justice warrior” of change.


7 posted on 08/31/2015 8:15:40 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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Coming up next: another study that the MSM will NOT publish.

...and Sports!


8 posted on 08/31/2015 8:17:39 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: rktman

Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s... CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!!!


9 posted on 08/31/2015 8:21:59 AM PDT by afsnco
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Others indicated using “corrupt cops” who seize guns then “put them back on the street.”

and there it is...

10 posted on 08/31/2015 8:22:58 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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H/T to our FRiend rktman for the post.

I am gobsmacked: the gun laws don't work??

For thus has the Lord said unto me:
“Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees.”
Isaiah 21:6

The Watchman Ping List - FReepmail Old Sarge for details!

11 posted on 08/31/2015 8:23:28 AM PDT by Old Sarge (I prep because DHS and FEMA told me it was a good idea...)
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That’s how the bloomin’ antis sold it to the IPOS/LPOS/SPOS/UPOS voters in NV when they petitioned for the ballot initiative for the 2016 ballot. Oh, and it will stop all future domestic violence too. And more than twice as many signature were obtained as needed. So, where does that tell you that vote is going next year? If approved by the voters, the intergalactic background check will be law on 1/1/2017. If we go by the recent northwest push, bloomie alone will kick in over $800K while the opposition will kick in less than $100K. Sad dang situation.


12 posted on 08/31/2015 8:23:32 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
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To: BillyBonebrake

There ought to be a ban on bereaved family members appearing on TV after yet another hideous murder, covered by the maudlin media 24/7. These mourners always blame lax gun laws, no matter that most of the weapons used were bought legally because there was no criminal record at the time of sale.


13 posted on 08/31/2015 8:24:33 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Old Sarge

Shocking ain’t it.


14 posted on 08/31/2015 8:24:55 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
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To: Chode

#copslivesmatter


15 posted on 08/31/2015 8:25:36 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to deprive me of mine. Kinda weird.)
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so any differences are going to be in the management and the wait staff.

Gun control was NEVER about reducing crime. It has always been about disarming the law abiding populace so that when the socialists go to their extreme positions there will not be any way for people who have been pushed beyond their tolerance for being robbed and controlled to resist. People like 0baba and his accomplices in the media and government look at governments like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union and don't see the evils we do. They see their wonderful wet dream of total control over the masses. They see that if they pass enough restrictive unconstitutional laws they can force us to follow their silly dreams - green energy, no guns, no cars, "healthy" food only, no houses in suburbia, public transit only, etc.

They know that if we can shoot back they won't be able to do this hence gun control

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

16 posted on 08/31/2015 8:26:15 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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not sure where this came from: so any differences are going to be in the management and the wait staff.
17 posted on 08/31/2015 8:28:01 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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18 posted on 08/31/2015 8:30:00 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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Guns are bought on the street BECAUSE guns are a common items taken during home invasions.


19 posted on 08/31/2015 8:31:48 AM PDT by GOPJ (Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE)
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Oh, and it will stop all future domestic violence too.

I’ll bet Harry wishes this had been done just a little sooner.


20 posted on 08/31/2015 8:34:21 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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