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By frank main
1-2013
Want to know how to get a gun?
Just ask Chris.
The skinny teen attends high school in Chicago and is a talented athlete. But hes also a notorious gunslinger.
As a shooter in a South Side gang, he can get his hands on a gun as quick as you can get a burger at a fast-food restaurant.
I will make a call and say I need a gun. I will ride down the street on my bike and get it five minutes.
The Chicago Sun-Times sat down with Chris for a lesson on how gangs get guns. Armed gangs like Chris have driven up Chicagos murder total 28 percent above the tally at this time last year. And Chris is on the front lines of the shooting.
For your hood, you cant stop [getting] guns because its war season. A gang need any gun it can get, said the teen, who has worked as an informant for police and asked for anonymity. The Sun-Times is identifying him by an alias.
Gun guys
He knows men whose full-time job in the underground economy is to buy guns from suburban stores and illegally sell them to criminals.
Chris calls them the gun guys. The cops have another name for them: straw purchasers.
Gun guys have clean records allowing them to obtain Illinois firearm owners identification cards. With FOID cards, they can legally buy guns at stores in the suburbs.
Then they illegally sell them to gang members banned from owning guns because of their criminal backgrounds.
Most of the guns recovered in crimes in Chicago were bought in suburban gun stores, according to a new University of Chicago Crime Lab study of police gun-trace data.
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Getting a gun in Chicago quick and easy - Chicago Sun-Times
1-2013
Want to know how to get a gun?
Just ask Chris.
The skinny teen attends high school in Chicago and is a talented athlete. But hes also a notorious gunslinger.
As a shooter in a South Side gang, he can get his hands on a gun as quick as you can get a burger at a fast-food restaurant.
I will make a call and say I need a gun. I will ride down the street on my bike and get it five minutes.
The Chicago Sun-Times sat down with Chris for a lesson on how gangs get guns. Armed gangs like Chris have driven up Chicagos murder total 28 percent above the tally at this time last year. And Chris is on the front lines of the shooting.
For your hood, you cant stop [getting] guns because its war season. A gang need any gun it can get, said the teen, who has worked as an informant for police and asked for anonymity. The Sun-Times is identifying him by an alias.
Gun guys
He knows men whose full-time job in the underground economy is to buy guns from suburban stores and illegally sell them to criminals.
Chris calls them the gun guys. The cops have another name for them: straw purchasers.
Gun guys have clean records allowing them to obtain Illinois firearm owners identification cards. With FOID cards, they can legally buy guns at stores in the suburbs.
Then they illegally sell them to gang members banned from owning guns because of their criminal backgrounds.
Most of the guns recovered in crimes in Chicago were bought in suburban gun stores, according to a new University of Chicago Crime Lab study of police gun-trace data.
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Continue reading: ---->
Getting a gun in Chicago quick and easy - Chicago Sun-Times