{"id":66399,"date":"2016-06-18T18:14:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T22:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66399"},"modified":"2016-06-18T18:14:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T22:14:54","slug":"shocker-chicago-criminals-buy-their-guns-on-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66399","title":{"rendered":"Shocker: Chicago criminals buy their guns on the street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m speechless, too. <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/news\/survey-crooks-get-guns-from-pals-dont-keep-them-long\/\">The Chicago Tribune<\/a> reports that University of Chicago Crime Lab conducted a survey of their criminals to determine where they got their guns. Strangely enough, despite what we&#8217;re told by the media and the politicians, none bought their weapons at gun stores, from the internet or gun shows.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About 70 percent said they got their guns from family, fellow gang members or through other social connections. Only two said they bought a gun at a store. It\u2019s unclear how many of those surveyed were felons, but they can\u2019t hold a state firearm owner\u2019s permit \u2014 so they can\u2019t legally purchase a weapon at a store.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the men said they had possessed semiautomatic handguns and preferred magazines with a capacity of 30 or more bullets. Only a handful said they had possessed military-style assault weapons such as an AK-47.<\/p>\n<p>Those surveyed might prefer handguns with a lot of ammunition because they aren\u2019t good marksmen, Pollack said. The survey showed the men don\u2019t normally practice on targets and don\u2019t have a lot of knowledge about their weapons, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The interviewers spoke with the 100 or so criminals face-to-face and they asked folks who were in the system for violent gun-related crimes. So, of course, the solution is to write more laws to which criminals will find a work-around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m speechless, too. The Chicago Tribune reports that University of Chicago Crime Lab conducted a &hellip; <a title=\"Shocker: Chicago criminals buy their guns on the street\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66399\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shocker: Chicago criminals buy their guns on the street<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}