Posted on 09/20/2013 12:23:37 PM PDT by rellimpank
Those behind a late-night attack at a southwest Chicago park in which 13 people were wounded, including a 3-year-old, used an assault-style weapon to spray the crowd with bullets, making it "a miracle" no one was killed, the city's police superintendent said Friday.
Ballistics evidence shows that those behind Thursday night's attack used a 7.62 mm rifle fed by a high-capacity magazine, police Superintendent Garry McCarthy told reporters. That type of weapon, he said, belongs on a "battlefield, not on the street or a corner or a park in the Back of the Yards," the neighborhood where the shooting took place.
"It's a miracle in this instance that there have been no fatalities based upon the lethality of the weapon used at the scene," McCarthy said, calling on lawmakers to restrict the sale of such weapons and choke off the flow of illegal guns into the city.
The attack happened shortly after 10 p.m. while the Cornell Square Park was still crowded with people watching a basketball game and enjoying a warm late summer night.
Investigators believe several people took part in the attack but weren't sure yet how many fired shots. McCarthy said that based on witness interviews, it appears the attack was gang-related and that several victims are gang members.
"Even if it's gang-related, even if we have the most hardened criminals who becomes the victim of gun violence, that individual is the father, brother, sister sometimes parent of somebody else," McCarthy said. "So murder is not a one-victim crime."
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MAYBE an SKS, but even then I doubt it.
Since Chicago has such strict gun control laws, why are there so many shootings there?
Or, because so many shootings are related to gang violence, do these shooting not count???
From recent rhetoric, you would swear that the biggest threat to young black men is a white Hispanic neighborhood watchman with a gun. When in fact, the biggest threat to young black men are other black men with guns.
I’ve never heard of gangbangers using a 7.62x51/.308 AR-10 in a shooting before; wonder if it’s some if the F&F hardware coming up north?
‘Ballistics evidence” proved the model of firearm used? really?
I thought ballistics evidence was pretty much limited to the caliber and type of bullet used. Perhaps angle of entry as well.
Oh noesss not an ‘assault rifle’
If only we had gun control....
Who wants to bet assault style rifle= shotgun
but if you be in da Back of da Yards, you betta have you dat type of weapon, if you want to survive.
Ooops, scrap the AR-10/.308 description; I wrongly assumed AR-10, but it could be another, altogether different model. Article doesn’t say.
Impossible. Those have been outlawed.
Gee, don’t you just hate it when one of those 7.62 assault style guns gets out of control and starts shooting people.
Those guns are already outlawed in Chicago, by the way
When it comes to the anti second amendment people, is there any other kind of weapon other than an “assault rifle”?
I've seen plenty of thugs posing with AKs on their facebook pages. They've got them.
From what I’ve heard Chicago IS a battlefield.
Pathetic! Law enforcement doesn’t - then blames their FAILURE on the gun!
More than likely a 7.62x39 rooskie in a chicom ak knockoff... if it even was a rifle.
Yikes. I’m not a FB-er, so I’ve never seen that.
Yeah, probably an FNH SCAR with a high end Aimpoint red dot...
/sarc
Impossible. It’s illegal to have guns in Chicago.
that’s 7.62x39
they could have Sigs,HKs, whatever.
Depends on how well they know Holder.
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