The headline is misleading. It is intended to make it sound like this was a legal private face to face sale gone wrong.
But the sale is apparently not what this guy was arrested for. He was arrested because he was a prohibited person in possession of a firearm.
Of course the truth doesn’t support the “we need more gun control” narrative....
Details in this news report: But the Chicago media of course refers to the trade of firearms for drugs is a ‘transfer’.
“........While the 11-page criminal complaint details a single June transaction involving a 9 mm pistol, it does not mention the May shooting of the two Deering District officers.
Chicago police, however, have previously said that Williams was also suspected of providing the rifle used in that shooting.
“That gun changed hands five separate times over the course of several years,” Anthony Riccio, chief of the Chicago Police Department’s Organized Crime division, told reporters at a news conference last week. “Five different people had that gun. Ultimately it wound up in the hands of a guy named Charlie Williams who lives on the South Side of Chicago. ... He is the one that transferred it to this street gang who used it to then shoot a police officer.”............
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