[marktwain]

Sounds like a fairy tale.

[marktwain]

The Pulitzer prizes have a history of being given to writers of politically correct fiction.

[Travis McGee]

The gun had a serial number on it, so Chris scraped it off with a screwdriver. The cops can’t trace the weapon back to the original owner without the serial number, he explained.

Yeah, right, that'll work. The reporter is too stupid to know he's talking to a fabulist.

[ronnie raygun]

The rats shining city on a hill.

[ratzoe]

Certainly seems like a fairy tale, 2 things that jump out from the story. The teen referring to a gun as a ‘gat’, isn’t that a very old dated term? I definitely could be wrong but I find it hard to believe a teen would use it. Also, using the very old ‘freight’ robbery story to add a bit of truth to this piece. This whole story seems to me as totally fictional. It’s probably another one of those ‘composite’ things(/sar off)

[Spok]

And disarming law-abiding citizens will help?

[PJBankard]

Sounds like a fairy tale.

Obviously, as two major things make this clear. First, only a complete idiot would divulge about being a 'gun slinger' to a reporter. Second, the reporter could be charged as an accessory to any crime committed where "Chris" was invovled if he did not provide the police with Chris' information, considering 'Chris' admitted to stealing a FireArm, a Class B Felony. Which brings us back to the first point, only an idiot would tell a report that.

[smokingfrog]

You feel me?

[muir_redwoods]

How many Fast and Furious guns are sent north by the cartels to enforce their will on their markets?

[libstripper]

A link to the original article, where there’s actually a lot of good information showing how the gang problem could be dealt with if the authhorities actually wanted to:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2923015/posts

[Navy Patriot]

A propaganda agenda article with no other purpose.

[Lazamataz]

The gun had a serial number on it, so Chris scraped it off with a screwdriver.

This is so stupid. He'd mar the gun. Personally, I always use White-Out.

Interview me, Chicago Sun-Times. I got the scoop for ya!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Between April and July last year, at least 35 brand-new guns were stolen as they sat in boxcars in the city’s South Side rail yards,***

40 years ago Mike Wallace had a 60 MINUTES report on freight car break ins. While interviewing some black gang members they admitted that they had found lots of items to steal from the freight cars.

Wallace asked what was the last thing they had stolen and they answered...”meat”.

Wallace then asked what was the biggest heist they ever made. The answer was...”GUNS”.

When asked what they did with the guns they refused to answer.

After 1968, in the panic after Bobby Kennedy was murdered, the government REQUIRED all gun shipments by rail to have a large colored tag on that read “GUNS”.

The gun dealer I bought from said that many of the freight car conductors were in league with criminals and at certain rail crossings they would open the car door and throw the packages marked GUNS out to people waiting there.

Skeeter Skelton, a writer for SHOOTING TIMES shipped an engraved Browning HI-Power to the magazine company in Peoria, Ill to have it photographed. It disappeared somewhere in transit and was never found.

[ConservaTexan]

“I wasn’t doing this before I started watching the videos. The females want to see you be a tough gang-banger,” he said.

This quote from the original article leads me to believe that Chris is fictitious. I find it unbelievable that a real life "gangsta" would ever use the word female to describe a female. If the quotes are bogus then the entire article is BS.

[PghBaldy]

Good thread, thanks.

[Tainan]

Whole story...