Posted on 08/26/2012 6:21:10 AM PDT by marktwain
***Between April and July last year, at least 35 brand-new guns were stolen as they sat in boxcars in the city’s South Side rail yards,***
40 years ago Mike Wallace had a 60 MINUTES report on freight car break ins. While interviewing some black gang members they admitted that they had found lots of items to steal from the freight cars.
Wallace asked what was the last thing they had stolen and they answered...”meat”.
Wallace then asked what was the biggest heist they ever made. The answer was...”GUNS”.
When asked what they did with the guns they refused to answer.
After 1968, in the panic after Bobby Kennedy was murdered, the government REQUIRED all gun shipments by rail to have a large colored tag on that read “GUNS”.
The gun dealer I bought from said that many of the freight car conductors were in league with criminals and at certain rail crossings they would open the car door and throw the packages marked GUNS out to people waiting there.
Skeeter Skelton, a writer for SHOOTING TIMES shipped an engraved Browning HI-Power to the magazine company in Peoria, Ill to have it photographed. It disappeared somewhere in transit and was never found.
I did jury duty a few years ago, a shooting case, and the whole thing had to be done through interpreters. Apparently, Spanish for gun is 'fuego'.
About the same time, my father shipped a .250 savage model 99 through Chicago to have some work done. It was stolen.
Even though it states that in the paper. No informant would single themselves out, even using an alias, by saying what they did and that they were an informant in the news. That is asking to get killed. Secondly, if he is an ‘informant’, he wouldn’t be ‘stealing’ a friends gun and filing off the serial, as any weapons he did provide as an informant would be provided from the police for tracking. He stealing a weapon and filing the serial would not be covered while being an ‘informant’ for the police.
This quote from the original article leads me to believe that Chris is fictitious. I find it unbelievable that a real life "gangsta" would ever use the word female to describe a female. If the quotes are bogus then the entire article is BS.
Good thread, thanks.
Yeah, that “gat” reference threw me off too. Seems a little cliched and contrived.
I would doubt there is one gang-banger on the planet that would have the patience to actually use a screwdriver and somehow get rid of the serial number on a firearm, given how long that would take.
Seriously. These are people that have no patience for anything.
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