Posted on 09/20/2013 12:23:37 PM PDT by rellimpank
Those behind a late-night attack at a southwest Chicago park in which 13 people were wounded, including a 3-year-old, used an assault-style weapon to spray the crowd with bullets, making it "a miracle" no one was killed, the city's police superintendent said Friday.
Ballistics evidence shows that those behind Thursday night's attack used a 7.62 mm rifle fed by a high-capacity magazine, police Superintendent Garry McCarthy told reporters. That type of weapon, he said, belongs on a "battlefield, not on the street or a corner or a park in the Back of the Yards," the neighborhood where the shooting took place.
"It's a miracle in this instance that there have been no fatalities based upon the lethality of the weapon used at the scene," McCarthy said, calling on lawmakers to restrict the sale of such weapons and choke off the flow of illegal guns into the city.
The attack happened shortly after 10 p.m. while the Cornell Square Park was still crowded with people watching a basketball game and enjoying a warm late summer night.
Investigators believe several people took part in the attack but weren't sure yet how many fired shots. McCarthy said that based on witness interviews, it appears the attack was gang-related and that several victims are gang members.
"Even if it's gang-related, even if we have the most hardened criminals who becomes the victim of gun violence, that individual is the father, brother, sister sometimes parent of somebody else," McCarthy said. "So murder is not a one-victim crime."
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There should be a law where criminals can’t steal guns or rob, murder, rape and all other such mayhem.
Idiots.
its illegal to shoot people, and especially illegal to harm them or actually kill them, and then its also illegal to have a gun in Chicago so WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?
What!!! It's impossible for criminals to get anything illegal....they must be selling them at Walmart. (smirk)
Another AR15 shotgun, no doubt.
We also know that after generations of comocrat rule in shitcago that everyone there is happy with great medical care, fantastic jobs, and more than enough income to allow all of their children to attend top rated public school.
We know all these things because the socialist democrats have told us repeatedly that there way will take care of all of these problems for our whole nation if given power, just like they did in shitcago.
I'm just pointing out a fact.
13 bullets is not a “High Capacity” magazine. They were so disappointed that an AR-15 was used used at the Navy Yard. The Sinaloa Drug Cartel runs Chicagoland. Their leader said they got weapons from Fast and Furious in exchange for intel on rival gangs. If the Chicago Police Chief wants to know where this shooter got a 7.62 “Assault Rifle”. He should talk to Eric Holder.
Ar 15Ar 16 whatever it took
Hey Garry!
Perhaps you should worry more about the perp, who likely STOLE THE WEAPON!!!
Why does this shooting bother you more than the 500 murders there last year?
Oh, it’s even better. This “ballistics evidence” even told them the size of the magazine. Real CSI wizards, these guys.
“MAYBE an SKS, but even then I doubt it.”
Some other possibilities but I doubt these as well as they are long guns and thereby unwieldy in cars; M1A (civilian version of M-14) and the Browning BAR (Hunting version not military). If these dudes were actually using some sort of 30 cal rifle then you can bet it was stolen.
You're pointing out the elephant in the living room, especially since the MSM just got finished screwing up over AR-15 claims.
Murderous bastards.
All they can tell from “ballistic evidence” would be that there are 30 caliber rifle bullets stuck n folks.
So, here is my theory:
It must have been an M1 Garand!
It would take up the whole back seat, you’d have to load a few E-blocks to shoot 13 people and those high quality peep sights wouldn’t do you much good in a moving car at night, but still, perfect for a drive by. You’ve got a bayonet and everything.
Good thing Obama stopped re-importing those things. They belong on foreign battle fields (like Omaha beach)
Since it was a SCHOOL night, my parents would have seen to it that I was either in bed or demanding an answer as to why my homework wasn't finished....
So Chicago, how did that ban on them work for you?
Pretty damned expensive ammo too.
But, my preference. Wouldn’t waste it on random spraying.
These weapons in CHICAGO?
GayMuzzie brokered a “no busts for rival cartel intel” arrangement with the Sinaloa Cartel. It’s spooky and secret, JUST LIKE most of the rest of the stuff Mr. ChoomGang does.
So the Sinaloa Cartel is an extension of the current Regime —that, or the other way around. It’s hard to tell, now, it’s 50/50 now, by my guess.
F&F guns flowed to the Cartels, and from there to Chi-town, which is mobbed up with GayMuzzie.
They needed a mass-shooting with some type of AR, and WOW...! NOW THEY HAVE ONE...!
I’m soooo surprised.
Well then! I would hope the Chicago hack superintendent would WELCOME 'salty weapons' because they clearly are nonlethal!
People use the word “miracle” way too often when it doesn’t apply. I’d say a true miracle is that 50 people a day aren’t killed in cities with strong gun control.
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