Crime Pays!

By James Rummel

The Trace presents itself as an actual news website, when it is actually a rabidly anti-gun organization funded by the rabidly anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg. Just like all propaganda sources which religiously pursue an agenda without thought to the facts, any claims made on the site should be assumed to be twisted to fit the narrative.

That having been said, I came across an article which claims to have parsed the police reports in Chicago to find the types of guns seized from criminals. I found the results to be a bit surprising.

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Long time readers know that I worked as a fingerprint technician back in the early 1990’s for the police in Columbus, Ohio. At the time, the officers I worked alongside mentioned cheap .25 autoloaders as being the gun of choice for criminals. Although extremely small and concealable, the makes and models of the guns seized were shoddily made as well as being extremely cheap and inexpensive. There were a few quality firearms found, but not many.

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