they hit a shipment of Rugers in the last month
Posted on 03/12/2017 6:46:41 PM PDT by SJackson
On the south side of Chicago, in one of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods, brazen criminals occasionally hit the gangster’s jackpot: they loot freight containers carrying shiny, new guns.
The guns – boxes and boxes of them – are part of shipments that are destined for gun companies or gun shops across the country. But as gangsters have caught on to the practice, they are ransacking these trains and stealing weapons that eventually make their way to the city’s blood-soaked streets.
"Any time you have individuals who can go in and steal guns from a train, that makes the environment very toxic," said Pastor Cory Brooks, who leads a church around the corner from the freight yard.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said that since 2013, more than 150 firearms have been reported stolen from freight trains. An Associated Press investigation revealed that some were traced to violent crimes and only 16 were recovered.
In a city already reeling from one of the most violent crime waves in years, where tens of thousands of firearms are recovered from the streets every year, 150 stolen guns might not seem like a big deal. But one single gun can be linked to at least 14 fatal shootings, according to the ATF.
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Nothing new. Mike Wallace did a report on this for 60 MINUTES forty five years ago.
Rail cars in Chicago being broke into.
Gangs claimed the biggest haul they made was..”GUNS!”
Refused to tell Wallace what they did with the guns.
Great! :-)
ONE HUNDRED FIFTY???!?
That’s IT????
I know people with three times that in their safes.
Thanks
No never drove a cab on Staten Island.......
Sadly those housing projects are now the Democratic plantations and the people who live there every bit slaves to their DC masters doling out the welfare bucks.
Back in 1968, a gun store owner told me that guns shipped by rail back then had a big red tape on them listed as FIREARMS.
He said ever so often the baggage conductor would toss these packages off to waiting cars at certain crossroads and they never made it to those who they were shipped to.
Before the 1968 Gun control Act became law I ordered a mail order gun from Selma, Alabama. It was shipped railway express, and I did get it. The package had a big red tape on it saying it was FIREARMS. Surprised I got it.
What really bugged me was the cost of railway express was the same amount as the firearm.
You described projects spot on.
“Inside job ....or just real bad reporting or math”
Fake news one way or the other.
they hit a shipment of Rugers in the last month
We’re returning back to the WILD WEST DAYS when the POSSE guarded the stagecoach with the bankroll.
Leroy Brown?
We’re those trains in indiana? Didn’t Rahm say the thugs were getting all their guns in Indiana?
150 firearms in 3 1/2 years is hardly looting freight cars filled with guns
"The Great Society".
>> I'll have those n-words voting democRATic for the next 200 years.
-LBJ
I hate that #### most from that era, unless Ted was already on the scene. Then it’s a tough call.
The Soviets were very active in the 60s fomenting dissent, with; the hippie movement, the feminist movement, black power, the queer rights movement, liberation theology etc etc etc
Now, it’s called the democRAT(ick) Party.
So how do they know which container out of thousands and thousands to hit?
Who the heck would ship a small number of guns on a train?
Absolutly makes no sense. Total BS.
Soviets were good at what they did.
Bury us from within, they almost did.
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