Let’s check in and see how the school children of Chicago are doing.
Unfortunately as expected…
Also serves as a friendly reminder that criminals don’t follow gun laws. They only apply to you.#glock #chicago #Chiraq #switch #urban #decay #CityLife #FailedState pic.twitter.com/GvXQWZg7m0
— Mrgunsngear (@Mrgunsngear) November 4, 2023
More than 500 people have been shot and killed in Chicago this year. More than 2,220 have been shot and wounded. On any weekend, Chicago streets reverberate with the sound of fully automatic fire. It remains America’s deadliest domestic war zone.
According to one violence tracker, a Chicagoan is shot every 2 hours and 45 minutes. Someone in the city is murdered every 13 hours, and it is no secret who’s doing the killing.
There are more than 100,000 documented gang members in the Windy City, and the influx of plastic Glock switches has armed thousands of them with converted machineguns. The plastic switches attach easily to most Glock-type handguns, giving the weapon an incredibly high cyclic rate. The switches are sold openly on a few unscrupulous Chinese websites, and they’re also very easy to 3D print.
One recent viral video shows Chicago teens showing off their Glock switches, brazenly taunting police. Another video shows a young man spraying fully automatic fire into a crowd.
8 people shot in Downtown Chicago last night. One man pulled out a Glock switch pic.twitter.com/jPPCwu8smd
— SAY CHEESE! (@SaycheeseDGTL) October 9, 2023
Anyone who has ever tried to shoot the Glock 18 – Glock’s factory-made machine pistol – knows how difficult it is to control a full-auto 9mm handgun, even for an experienced pistoleer. In the hands of young gang members – a group not known for their accuracy or target discrimination – these converted Glocks are a recipe for mass casualties.
To be clear, innocent lives are at risk.
If anyone at ATF had even half a brain, you’d think they would flood the zone with Special Agents whose sole mission would be to rid Chicago’s streets of machinegun-toting gangsters. Unfortunately, the ATF has other plans and priorities.
ATF Director Steven Dettelbach announced this week his intent to ban legally owned semi-automatic rifles, which he called “assault weapons.”
Dettelbach’s comments came at a discussion called “Gun Violence in America,” which was held at Harvard University, of course.
“The president has also said, and I agree, that we should consider and reinstate a ban on certain types of assault weapons,” Dettelbach said, adding he also supported the president’s call for universal background checks.
Dettelbach’s comments conflict with his earlier testimony, which was given under oath before a Senate confirmation committee, when he promised skeptical senators that he would not use his position to advocate for new gun regulations or laws.
Wrong Priorities
Dettelbach and his agents could use a real-world mission. Nowadays, they have plenty of time on their hands.
As we have previously reported, most of ATF’s criminal charges are filed administratively after the fact, after another law enforcement agency has made an arrest. For example, when local police arrest an armed criminal with a prior felony conviction, they may ask the ATF to pursue federal charges, which usually carry a stiffer penalty. Of course, ATF takes credit for the arrest, the investigation, and the subsequent prosecution, often by claiming it was part of a task force or its Project Safe Neighborhoods program.
Currently, ATF is keeping busy by intimidating and harassing law-abiding gun dealers. They recently sent a 12-man ATF SWAT team to the rural Oklahoma home of a federal firearm licensee who had committed no crime. The dealer was so terrified he relinquished his FFL.
Wouldn’t ATF SWAT assets be more useful in Chicago, where local police are understaffed, underpaid, and under Democrat control?
ATF leadership loves to tout how helpful they are to their law enforcement “partners.” It’s time for deeds, not words. Rather than sitting in their comfy Field Division offices, waiting for the phone to ring with a routine trace request, maybe ATF should consider committing some actual police work. Maybe they should take the lead role in disarming an actual threat instead of their current supporting role.
Given the millions of undocumented military-age males Joe Biden allowed to walk across our border and the $7 billion in weapons and military equipment he gifted the terrorists, which are already showing up in Israel, we’ll hang on to our ARs and AKs, thank you very much. After all, we may need them.
If Dettelbach wants to separate himself from the other political toadies who have helmed the ATF, he should dispatch hundreds of agents to Chicago where they’re actually needed – where they can save lives – rather than using them to harass law-abiding Americans just to satisfy the whims of a faltering president.
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About Lee Williams
Lee Williams, who is also known as “The Gun Writer,” is the chief editor of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. Until recently, he was also an editor for a daily newspaper in Florida. Before becoming an editor, Lee was an investigative reporter at newspapers in three states and a U.S. Territory. Before becoming a journalist, he worked as a police officer. Before becoming a cop, Lee served in the Army. He’s earned more than a dozen national journalism awards as a reporter, and three medals of valor as a cop. Lee is an avid tactical shooter.
It was never about public safety with the gun-grabbers. Only about disarming the law-abiding! They know they’re tyrants and that the things they want to impose on the public will get them shot. THAT is the reason why their fight to abolish the 2nd Amendment never ends!
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The worst part is an author, who would claim they support the 2nd Amendment, is whimpering like a liberal for gun control enforcement. A ported barrel on a full auto pistol makes it one of the best weapons for close quarters against an armed group or another armed person. The gangbangers get to have full autos because they will use the 2nd Amendment as intended and say no to the socialist enforcers with deadly force. Thank God folks like the author are who patriots shot at Lexington. The author would say the patriots should have complied with the British law… Read more »
were you born this stupid or….. did it take some fake college degree?
he is right…..there is no but in wording of second amendment, it was written to give future generations a fighting chance against tyrannical government. waco would have had a much different ending were they properly armed ….tanks make nice smug pots ……..,.
I interpret this as saying that current machine gun laws should be enforced, not that they should necessarily be laws in the first place. Some laws need to be repealed yesterday but until that day comes, it is what it is.
If the only people who get hemmed up in the courts are the peaceful people who were never a problem to begin with, then the inner city bodies will continue to pile up and the rest of us will continue to pay the price for it.
Not abortion, nor free speech nor tea tax got the colonist riled up but the damned WRITS OF ASSISTANCE and the fact they would now have to travel to a non-colony court system for “justice”. I’ve read the actual debate on NFA and the only “reason” for the NFA was to keep “gangsta’s from getting machine guns”. Lawful citizens such as collectors…would need not be concerned….. just pay a $200 tax which was a greater cost than the machine gun and equal to maybe 4 months pay for the average citizen. Oh, Congress has no authority to enact firearm laws… Read more »
if you look 1934 law was gutted in 1968 which is the reason for 1968 law (lbj was a sob)
Keep in mind that the shooters are of a protected minority group residing in a heavily blue city.
No way creepy sleepy Joe or any of his minions are going to crack down on Chicago violence this close to an election.
this is why they want the illegals to take the place of those killing each other…..use replacements to vote for the dead
The good people in such bad neighborhoods (read that as “the voters”) typically are strong supporters of law enforcement. They recognize their risks and that when cops actually do the job of catching dangerous criminals, the good people are better off. In other words focusing on making black neighborhoods safer they could possibly cement another term for #FJB.
Most of those shooters are too young to vote and I doubt they are civically active enough to give a $*it.
All by design per LBJ’s “Great Society”, which the Democrats used to get the Inner City Blacks onto their “plantations” permanently. Some are waking up, but as others have said in the past: “you can take a person out of the ghetto, but not take the ghetto out of a person”. Cities are all going to be leveled in the soon to kick off Civil war, so this problem will not continue into the future much longer.
And think about this – both the RNC and DNC will be having their Conventions this coming summer – 90 miles apart. The DNC in Chicago. The RNC in Milwaukee….lmao. Stock up on your popcorn folks.
So 12.1% of the population is all about killing each other off; that’s around 44 million. I have no problem with that,
It takes a village, so they say.
Theyre up to something like 60% of violent crime and on average cost the U.S. 750k over the course of their lifetime
6% of the population committing 60%+ of the violent crime
America does not have a gun problem, it has a black problem.
@J.galt, Take the word “black” out of your comment. Change it to MENTAL, then I can COMPLETELY AGREE!!
a lot of it is education …and the left pushes it I know many dark skinned people (never met anyone who was black…and alive) alan west great guy called uncle tom because he is to white…..what??????? it is the I want something free people that are bad….south florida has trash of all colors (I use trash started as trailer trash but hurricanes took care of trailers )
A US Supreme Court ruling opined, that you do not punish the 98% based upon the actions of 2% of the population. It is settled law.
Young black males and their enablers roughly 4% of the general population committing 60%+ of the violent crime.
watched Sheriff Grady Judd the other day showing teens with 50+ arrests. The judges keep releasing these animals and repeatedly inflicting them upon us. Time for two strikes you’re dead.
they are trying to stop three strikes laws, how about send them to war zone in Africa after two
So long as the gang bangers in Chicago are no threat to politicians in DC, they will not be the target of the BATFE. Since they kill within their own demographic for the most part, it’s not even considered. “White supremacy” and “Domestic Terror” are the buzz words for DC these days. Politicians lay awake at night fearing semi auto AR-15s in the hands of the law abiding. To the extent of targeting the law abiding while ignoring dangerous Class III NFA items in the hands of criminals. Explain to me how a lawful person willing to pay $200 and… Read more »
The gangbangers are the ones who are exercising and defending their 2nd Amendment and the government enforcers know that.
Look at this article, where if you changed out full auto weapons the author is stigmatizing with his lack of skill behind one, then the author is as bad as any Liberal pushing for semiautomatic rifle and magazine bans.
To quote my hero, Bugs Bunny: “What a maroon!”
Like the drunk who lost their keys and was looking under the streetlight.
A passer-by offered to help. No keys to be found. Passer-by says “well where were you exactly when you lost the keys?” === Oh about 100 feet that way!…..”Then why are you looking here?”…The lighting is better.
If you can’t defeat the criminals to look good, just do something then, even if it won’t solve the problem. Abject insanity.
it is population control like abortions ….just a little later
well, there are no “half brainers” in Joe Biden’s administration… hell, the dementia ridden president is a propped up puppet for the far left handlers.
no one has a brain.
I think they all share one, and it has mad cow
geeze I was just thinking about this when I read an article about how the Biden administration was letting imported beef into the Country with Hoof and Mouth disease… I said, ” wow, I’m shocked it wasn’t mad cow”. nice comment !
The atf’s goal is to not ban just ar’s or glocks or shotguns or 3D printed guns, but to ban ALL guns. They won’t stop even if court ordered to do so. It’s an organization that needs to be disbanded because you can’t trust anyone that would be put in charge of it. Maybe we need a Department of the 2nd Amendment to protect lagal gun owners and fight to disarm gang and cartel members.
A local police officer enforcing gun laws is the same kind of bad person. Older conservatives made it to where we armed citizen have to let local cops safely endanger our loved ones by letting them safely enforce gun laws like gun free zones or permits. The exact opposite point of the 2nd Amendment.
No, they were not old when they did it, and it was at a time that you could trust your local police and generally trust government.
when was that? I’m pushing 70 and not in my life time. had problems with local police in rotten apple when working for dea ..but all this carp started by demoncraps wilson and rosevelt hated successful dark skinned people ,rosevelts wife believed judge by actions not color smart woman….by th by had a friend that was a red-tail owned a sambo’s bar-b-q fired a waitress that would not serve me …long time ago
The Second Amendment is to secure or advance the RKBA and not infringe or restrict. All rights are such.
They must “justify” their existence. Justify their wages. But it is a fact that public servants are absolutely prohibited from acting in an unconstitutional manner. Exceed one’s constitutional privileges, one becomes a criminal.
but there is no set method to stop their bad behavior,should have been hanging crimes stated in some part of constitution
The ATF is staffed with cowards. They’re not going into a scene where they might not have the dominate force…
ATF would rather
harasstyrannize law-abiding Americans because they know we won’t kill them…They have not pushed the right buttons (yet), may come a day.
you never know until that time arrives at your doorstep. give up my rights, over my dead body. and i don’t intend to go alone.
a 50 bmg lynx or barrett m95 gives a great chance of winning that fight
When I first became an FFL license holder in the 70s, I went to the ATF field office in the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago. They are most likely still there. So, they know what’s going on in Chicago!
They just don’t give a Flying F*ck!
When they arrest the perps and are not prosecuted or found guilty by a jury of their peers, why endanger your life then?
Anyone who has ever tried to shoot the Glock 18 – Glock’s factory-made machine pistol – knows how difficult it is to control a full-auto 9mm handgun, even for an experienced pistoleer. In the hands of young gang members – a group not known for their accuracy or target discrimination – these converted Glocks are a recipe for mass casualties
I rather see them armed with such weapons. Then being are and using accurate semi-auto fire.
Converted Glocks are a recipe for mass missing.
It’s a LOT safer going after the law-abiding citizen than a dangerous criminal.
yeah, yeah, remember officer safety is their primary concern. officer safety is also commonly known as cowardice in the civilian world.
Yet these tyrannical atf assholes should be killed. Hung for treason. Left for the crows.
what is with the oath these people take meaning nothing?
why would you feed garbage to crows?
Maryland already mandates universal background checks for even long gun transfers among citizens. The AR-15, AK-47, and similar firearms are already prohibited for transfer in Maryland. There is also a magazine limit of ten rounds. To understand the effectiveness of these measures, I recommend you examine the murder and violent crime rates in Baltimore. And didn’t Dettelbach commit perjury in his testimony to the Senate?
atf agents are criminals violating the constitution per se.
Note too that China is the one providing these Glock ‘switches’
Huummmmm!!!
but, butt, Legal Law Abiding American Citizens and Law Abiding People are MUCH EASIER to HARASS. They are EASIER to find due to the 4473 SEARCHABLE database the government is ILLEGALLY HAS and IS USING, has all the PRIVATE information the TREASONOUS “leo” needs. Thieves, KILLERS, MURDERERS, SHOOTERS, ILLEGAL DRUG USERS, INSURRECTIONISTS and TERRORISTS hide and DO NOT obey the Laws Congress past!!!!
What I do not get is why are “We The People” letting all of this BS take place and happen right under our noses. There should be no reason these infringements should be happening. what happened to the American people its like they have no spine anymore, they are nothing but cows headed for the slaughter and the firearms community is no better. People have no since of pride, dignity, loyalty, or honor anymore, its all about the dollar
oath keepers still believe in honor
Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have bad consequences. If you don’t register and vote you didn’t have your say when it mattered. All the bluster and threats on all the forums don’t count. Getting drunk at NASCAR or the stadium and chanting FJB is just making a fool of yourself. The people who matter are the ones who load a bus full of folks who want YOUR money and haul them around to the polls on election day to vote the cemetery ballots. They come out of the nursing homes with a suitcase full of harvested mail outs that they… Read more »