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Chicago's violent gangs looting freight cars filled with guns
FoxNews.com ^ | March 09, 2017 | Matt Finn

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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To: SJackson

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.


21 posted on 03/12/2017 7:20:27 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Jeff Chandler

Great! :-)


22 posted on 03/12/2017 7:22:03 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: SJackson

ONE HUNDRED FIFTY???!?

That’s IT????

I know people with three times that in their safes.


23 posted on 03/12/2017 7:22:39 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: dp0622

Thanks

No never drove a cab on Staten Island.......


24 posted on 03/12/2017 7:23:15 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

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.


25 posted on 03/12/2017 7:23:28 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where's your brothers ElCamino ?)
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To: SJackson

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.


26 posted on 03/12/2017 7:25:07 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Dilbert San Diego

You described projects spot on.


27 posted on 03/12/2017 7:25:49 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: stylin19a

“Inside job ....or just real bad reporting or math”

Fake news one way or the other.


28 posted on 03/12/2017 7:36:06 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: SJackson
they hit a shipment of Rugers in the last month
29 posted on 03/12/2017 7:37:41 PM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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To: SJackson

We’re returning back to the WILD WEST DAYS when the POSSE guarded the stagecoach with the bankroll.


30 posted on 03/12/2017 7:42:36 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: SJackson

Leroy Brown?


31 posted on 03/12/2017 7:54:39 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: SJackson

We’re those trains in indiana? Didn’t Rahm say the thugs were getting all their guns in Indiana?


32 posted on 03/12/2017 7:54:46 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT Ll)
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To: SJackson

150 firearms in 3 1/2 years is hardly looting freight cars filled with guns


33 posted on 03/12/2017 8:00:54 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: dp0622
It went brutally downhill starting in the ‘60s.

"The Great Society".

>> I'll have those n-words voting democRATic for the next 200 years.
-LBJ

34 posted on 03/12/2017 8:14:22 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

I hate that #### most from that era, unless Ted was already on the scene. Then it’s a tough call.


35 posted on 03/12/2017 8:15:28 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: SJackson
They must not know that Chicago has very strict laws against self defense and tight controls on gun ownership. Otherwise they wouldn't have violated these laws
36 posted on 03/12/2017 8:15:49 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: dp0622

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.


37 posted on 03/12/2017 8:18:44 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: SJackson

So how do they know which container out of thousands and thousands to hit?


38 posted on 03/12/2017 8:23:53 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: SJackson

Who the heck would ship a small number of guns on a train?
Absolutly makes no sense. Total BS.


39 posted on 03/12/2017 8:24:22 PM PDT by toomanylaws
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Soviets were good at what they did.

Bury us from within, they almost did.


40 posted on 03/12/2017 8:26:36 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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