I somehow think that if we completely defeated the gun control jihadists in this country, we’d still have to talk about Chicago. I’m starting to think that its nickname, The Windy City, is because its approach to guns blows so badly.
See, among other things, the city and its so-called leaders are big fans of gun buybacks.
In the best-case scenario, a gun buyback doesn’t really accomplish anything except allow people to feel good about themselves for “doing something,” even if that something isn’t productive. Most of the guns turned in at these events aren’t likely to end up in criminal hands in the first place, and criminals aren’t giving up their guns for a grocery gift card.
But Chicago can’t even seem to get this rather simple thing right.
As Cam noted earlier in the month, the city is being sued over a gun turned in at a buyback being used to shoot and kill a woman.
Yet it seems there’s a bigger problem at work.
According to the recently filed lawsuit, after the firearm was transferred to the tactical team office following the turn-in event, the Glock disappeared in a room full of police officers. In the subsequent investigation, it was discovered that a tag identifying the Glock had been hidden on a different firearm. The tag that should have accompanied the Glock was later found in the trash, evidence of a purposeful theft and cover-up to make it more difficult to track the firearm or its recovery. Further adding to the drama, the officer that was listed on those inventory records was later shot and killed by a fellow tactical team officer in what the police department labeled a friendly fire accident during a police pursuit.
No one was ever charged in any of the three crimes in which the Glock was used and the police sergeant that supervised the gun turn-in event where the firearm disappeared was suspended for one day for “failure to adequately secure and care for department property.”
In a city with some of the harshest and most restrictive gun control laws in the nation, the bottom line is that a criminal got a hold of a firearm due to its apparent theft by a police officer. This was facilitated, ironically, by an event supposedly designed to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals.
Sadly, this was not an isolated event for the city of Chicago, nor for other states. A similar situation unfolded previously in Chicago, where another firearm, expected to be inventoried and destroyed following a turn-in event, instead was later found next to the body of a man shot and killed in a police-involved shooting.
So there are two instances of buyback guns ending up in criminal hands, signs of a clear and deliberate theft from storage, and the only one held accountable was one sergeant, getting a one-day suspension.
Meanwhile, how many other guns given over in a buyback with the belief that it would now be safe from ending up in criminal hands are now, in fact, in criminal hands?
See, the reason those guns weren’t likely to be snagged by criminals was that the laws of probability were against it. Criminal guns are generally stolen from individuals, but there are more than 1.1 million households in Chicago. The odds of them breaking into the home of a particular gun owner are incredibly low, all things considered, and if a gun is properly secured, it might not be deemed as worth stealing.
But you put a bunch of guns in a central point, where everyone knows there are tons of guns, and now what you’ve got is a target.
Police officers and those who work for police departments aren’t necessarily saints. Those people exist, and they’re an absolute treasure to their departments. There are lots of others who are just putting in the hours and trying to do a good job, with varying degrees of success, just like anywhere else. These people are the workhorses of their departments in most cases.
But every department of any appreciable size is going to attract some bad apples sooner or later. Some of those are going to see all those guns and recognize that they can be sneaky, steal some of those, and sell them on the streets.
Because there are still only a relatively small number of guns there, the odds of a particular gun being stolen now are much higher.
And clearly, Chicago hasn’t accounted for this in the least, since we know of two recovered guns that came from a buyback, and we can only speculate about how many others are out there just waiting to be recovered after someone else dies.
Meanwhile, this is a city that blames law-abiding citizens for their problems, when it can’t even keep the guns its responsible for out of criminal hands.
The radical left, such as the “leadership” of Chicago, will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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