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Handgun from Chicago shootings linked to suburban gun shop


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Full article at link... FOID holder and a straw purchase

 

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/10/30/21529153/englewood-mass-shooting-straw-gun-purchase-eagle-sports-range-oak-forest

 

...Smith & Wesson handgun from one of Chicagos biggest mass shootings linked to suburban gun shop

 

The police and ATF were able to show a straw purchaser bought the 9mm weapon used in Englewood shooting from an Oak Forest store months before the shooting, records show.

 

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This is the story of how a handgun that police recovered after a foot chase was linked to one of the biggest mass shootings in modern Chicago history.

 

It starts late last year, when people gathered at a house in Englewood to celebrate the life of a slain young man. Someone started an argument over a woman, and that set off a shootout in the house that spilled outside, police said.

 

Thirteen people were wounded at the house in the 5700 block of South May Street.

 

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Using that unique identifier, ATF officials searched firearms purchase records and found that a man named Eric Blackman had bought the gun at Eagle Sports Range in Oak Forest.

 

Authorities say Blackman went to Eagle Sports Range last July and returned 10 days later to pick up the gun and a box of 9mm bullets. He doesnt have a criminal background and was authorized to buy the guns as a holder of an Illinois firearm owners identification card.

 

Federal agents tracked down Blackman, who lived in Englewood. They interviewed him last Jan. 28, and he acknowledged he bought the gun for Irvin because Irvin didnt have the FOID card needed to purchase one legally, according to an ATF affidavit....

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The article also says:

"In 2012, a University of Chicago Crime Lab study found that nearly half of the guns recovered by the Chicago police were bought in Cook County. The study looked at guns recovered within a year of their purchase — those most likely to be bought by straw purchasers."

 

I guess that shoots down (pun intended) the whole pipeline of guns from out of state narrative...

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Just to connect some dots...

Chicago Tribune

Apr 28, 2019

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In a shooting around 3:15 a.m. on Friday, a 41-year-old concealed carry license holder drew his own weapon after being confronted with a gun near the intersection of State Street and Ida B. Wells Drive, police said. He was in his 2015 BMW when he was rear-ended by a 22-year-old man in a 2019 Volkswagen, according to officials.

 

When the man in the BMW got out to check the damage to his vehicle, police have said, the other driver pulled a weapon, announced a carjacking, demanded the man's keys and shoved the man into the BMW, where he was able to retrieve his own gun from an area on the passenger side of the car and fatally shoot the man in the head. The man who was fatally shot was identified as Lonell Irvin, 22, of the 5700 block of May Street, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

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Chicago Tribune

Dec 22, 2019

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The violence began about 12:40 a.m. at a house party in the 5700 block of South May Street commemorating the birthday of a man who died in a previous shooting. Someone at the party opened fire, sending 13 people to area hospitals, according to Chicago police.

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The party was in honor of Lonell Irvin, a 22-year-old man fatally shot near the intersection of State Street and Ida B. Wells Drive during an attempted carjacking April 26 in the Loop, according to multiple people at the scene.

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The article also says:

"In 2012, a University of Chicago Crime Lab study found that nearly half of the guns recovered by the Chicago police were bought in Cook County. The study looked at guns recovered within a year of their purchase — those most likely to be bought by straw purchasers."

 

I guess that shoots down (pun intended) the whole pipeline of guns from out of state narrative...

There's always the other half of the guns ...

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I've seen a few attempted straw purchases at a local shop over the years. The shop refused the sales. Pretty easy tell. A guy will come in with a "friend." He starts looking at guns after showing his FOID. The friend doesn't have a FOID with him so can't handle the gun, but seems far more excited about the gun that his "friend" is handling than the purported purchaser is, himself. They come in asking to see "Glocks," then gravitate toward cheaper guns like M&P Shields after prices are quoted. I'm sure they're a lot more successful when they have the brains to have the "friend" wait in the car while the FOID holder conducts the straw purchase for him.

 

At least this is one gun crime Foxx won't be able to get away with not charging or down-charging while "equitably" throwing the book at some poor jerk who didn't realize his FOID had expired or was voided for a move, etc. I still can't get over that poor college kid being held without bail for "domestic terrorism" because he didn't properly pack his range guns and ammo in his trunk after a snowflake student overheard that he was going to the range after school and had his stuff in the car and called the police on him.

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Why is the Sun Times trying to blame the shop and not the shooter and why the straw purchaser got probation?

Because they have an agenda, pushing for someone/some party to ride in on a white horse and save us from guns purchased in Cook County. and Indiana. and United States of America.

...all the while defending the 2A rights of hunters and sportsmen.

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