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July 4 parade shooting suspect slipped past Illinois "red flag" safeguards
Reuters ^ | July 6, 2022 | Brendan O'Brien and Steve Gorman

Posted on 07/06/2022 1:51:42 PM PDT by jdege

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill., July 5 (Reuters) - The man charged with killing seven people at a Chicago-area July Fourth parade slipped past the safeguards of an Illinois "red flag" law designed to prevent people deemed to have violent tendencies from getting guns, officials revealed on Tuesday.

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Sergeant Chris Covelli of the Lake County Sheriff's Office said earlier in the day that Crimo had legally purchased a total of five guns, including the suspected murder weapon, despite having come to law enforcement's attention twice for behavior suggesting he might harm himself or others.

The first instance was an April 2019 emergency-911 call reporting Crimo had attempted suicide, followed in September of that year by a police visit regarding alleged threats "to kill everyone" that he had directed at family members, Covelli said.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; brendanobrien; letsgobrandon; stevegorman
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To: allendale

If an individual has a tattoo on their face, you don’t need red flag laws to discern their character and intent.


According to this:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4076476/posts

Face tattoos will now be allowed in the Canadian Armed Forces. Our neighbors to the north are unhappy that their military’s dress code hasn’t ‘kept up with the times’ and doesn’t reflect Canadian society as it is now’.

In California, I believe, it is illegal to discriminate against someone with an ‘ethnic’ hairdo. Soon it will be illegal to discriminate against those who sport face tattoos as well.

Dad signed off on his FOID (Illinois Firearm Owner’s ID required to buy or possess firearms and/or ammo). Was this before or after the lad threatened to kill the family? Now, dad didn’t shoot up his town, but dad did have this obviously disturbed kid living in his basement. Kid hasn’t had a job in two years. Where did the money come from to buy five firearms?


21 posted on 07/06/2022 2:43:40 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: jdege

More proof that gun control does not work.


22 posted on 07/06/2022 2:46:27 PM PDT by Rollee
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To: Ann Archy
So really where we are is...

gun control laws don't work...we need more gun control laws...

23 posted on 07/06/2022 2:46:36 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: Nifster
Unfortunately that will be the agenda.

These guys are working it like the anti-smoking lobby. Get it all but one bite at a time.

All they ever wanted was their own section in the restaurant...Right???

24 posted on 07/06/2022 2:49:52 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: jdege

“IOW, they weren’t doing their jobs?”

Exactly, why have laws if the LEO’s won’t bother enforcing them. Fire all involved!

“Slipped by” more like strutting by and waving his hand with the middle finger extended.


25 posted on 07/06/2022 2:50:55 PM PDT by Colo9250 (Democrats have murdered more children than all the wars in the past thirty years.)
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To: allendale

His, not their.


26 posted on 07/06/2022 3:20:15 PM PDT by Maceman (People who vote Democrat sell their lives (and ours) to the government and their souls to the Devil.)
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To: jdege

Shouldn’t the “ “ be around “slipped by”?


27 posted on 07/06/2022 3:31:14 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: jdege

I don’t understand why they keep saying he purchased them lawfully. He would have had choose “no” to question “e” in the ATF 4473 form claiming he was not an illegal user of drugs. From all accounts he WAS an illegal user of the drugs and committed a felony when filling out the form.


28 posted on 07/06/2022 3:45:14 PM PDT by nitzy
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To: frank ballenger
The vast numbers of gunowners own semi-automatic "assalt" weapons. They are the most popular semi-automatic rifles sold in America. That means, the red-flaggers who hate those weapons will turn in the largest percent of the gun owners. I am posting this image, again, to show the potential damage that red-flaggers can do:

“America’s Rifle,” the AR-15, of which more than 18 million are in circulation, is typically chambered in this common caliber: 5.56 NATO/.223 Remington:


29 posted on 07/06/2022 3:58:55 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: allendale
An individual with a tattoo on their face with a babe mom can be shooting cats in the backyard and the only flag raised would be the rainbow one.

Would you take away Jr's gun with this mom telling you what a sweet son she has?


30 posted on 07/06/2022 4:05:18 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: jonrick46

These parents look like they are right out of Haight- Ashbury WTH??


31 posted on 07/06/2022 4:10:48 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: jdege

Red Flag laws don’t apply to the Gay Mafia, Antifa, BLM or radical Democrats.
Or guys running around in dresses.


32 posted on 07/06/2022 4:18:43 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: jdege

Slipped past the Highland Farce “assault weapon” ban too!


33 posted on 07/06/2022 4:19:16 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Robert Jrs’ mom, Denise Pesina (maiden name), is the Founder & Practitioner of Trilogy Energy Systems. She is into New Age holistic health. Check out her web site:

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34 posted on 07/06/2022 4:28:58 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Spok
State law does:

"LOCATION RESTRICTIONS FOR CONCEALED CARRY LICENSEES

Illinois law states that a concealed carry licensee shall not knowingly carry a concealed firearm on or into...

....

"Any public gathering or special event conducted on property open to the public that requires the issuance of a permit from the unit of local government;..."

Among many other locations.

35 posted on 07/06/2022 4:40:46 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: jdege

He did not SLIP past anyone. He was escorted by the FBI


36 posted on 07/06/2022 4:58:20 PM PDT by dirtymac ( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOWhx) )
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To: hanamizu
Dad signed off on his FOID (Illinois Firearm Owner’s ID required to buy or possess firearms and/or ammo). Was this before or after the lad threatened to kill the family?
After.

The kid may not have been the only loon in the family...

37 posted on 07/06/2022 5:14:13 PM PDT by jdege
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To: jdege

You do realize his father ran for Mayor of Highland Park as a Republican and lost to the pro gun control Democrat right.

https://www.newsweek.com/robert-crimo-father-lost-highland-park-mayor-race-gun-control-democrat-1721775


38 posted on 07/07/2022 1:48:24 AM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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To: jdege

Who knew a simple dress could beat red flag laws?


39 posted on 07/07/2022 9:24:05 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: jonrick46

I call BS on that graphic. The Desert Tech MDR is the 4th best rifle in the US?


40 posted on 07/07/2022 9:25:57 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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