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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The gift that keeps on giving.
I was going to say, the jury’s not out on whether they succeeded or not.
We have a strong counter attack going on now but also a brainwashed couple of generations, interrupted only by The Great One.
150 guns would by a small shipment on a truck freight line.
150 x 8 pounds = 1,200 pounds. Heck that ain’t even a pick up truck worth of cargo.
Yep. Sounds very suspicious. Unguarded (or poorly guarded) freight trains with guns, and the gangs just happen to know how to steal them. Most likely some insider is tipping them off. There can’t be too many people that know what’s on the shipping manifests and when/where to find the guns.
Was this report made by that discussing Cris Wallace. I think he has a math problem, too. I need a few more vodkas to make it through the night watching Faux.
My brother-in-law in Maine died a couple of years ago. He had 2050 guns in his living room. 150 guns ain’t a more than a boil on Mike Wallace’s butt. My sister sold them off and has enough to line on for the next few years
What insurance company would ensure a house with contents that included 2,050 guns. Farmers?
here is how life works.
everybody is in on it.
gangs cooperate with shippers and gun companies,
by only taking shipments meant for the gangs.
ATF and local cops get their cut of $$ and guns.
gun companies and shippers benefit,
only the low end guns are taken, and
other damage is minimized.
everybody wins
Multiple trains transporting firearms... and only 150 stolen overall? In the last 3-4 years? When one single manufacturer delivery could easily be carrying that many? 150 since 2013 works out to be less than one firearm per week. The headline seems to make it sound like freight cars full of dozens of guns are hijacked daily.
Just ONE freight car full of guns would be 10,00 to 30,000 depending on rifle, pistol, compact, full size, packaging, etc. The headline makes it sound like a huge number of freight cars.
Completely deceptive.
150 guns is lost in the noise as far as illegal weapons in Chicago.
I was thinking the same thing. A few crates on a single pallet, at best. When the freight company takes charge of a shipment, they are technically responsible for it until it makes it to the addressee. This is Butch & Sundance stuff, robbing trains, and the railroads better get with it.
Yes they were tipped off. Something very similar was happening near Palm Springs when freight trains stopped near there to clear the line for the commuter traffic. Always at the same place right above a wash culvert. Only those cars that were carrying Dell computers were hit regularly. They would use the culvert as cover for the loading operations. Once caught, it was found a Dell logistics employee was the instigator of it.
I don’t know what the insurance details were, but he was a government registered gun collector. He had some fabulous guns.
The operative word is Chicago
Nobody gives a damn about the tribal wars in Chicago.
I doubt the veracity of the tale. Only 150 guns removed from boxes and boxes. BS
Like booze shipments during probhibition? Maybe. I wonder about the story, 150 guns sounds more like looting one freight car. And I'm surprised firearms are shipped by rail in small quanities.
I'd speculate it was one boxcar and the Tribune is exaggerating.
Hope they're not that stupid. The 14 number also strikes me as high, but if half that all the more reason for stop and frisk in Chicago. Get the illegal guns off the street.
Probably doesn't make the getaway car full. I believe there may have been 150 guns stolen, but I suspect the story of exaggeration. I also wasn't aware that small quanities of firearms were shipped by train. Maybe the post office uses it
I am glad no one made the mandatory call for more gun control.
“The 14 number also strikes me as high, but if half that all the more reason for stop and frisk in Chicago.”
I hear that gangs sometimes have “library guns,” which the bangers check out to commit crimes, then check back in for hiding. That could account for the high number.
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