Top 10 sources of Chicago’s crime guns traced to suburban shops

By Brian Seay

An average of one in ten crime guns recovered in Chicago were first sold by two suburban Chicago gun dealers. (Photo: Chicago Sun Times)
A report released Sunday details where thousands of Chicago crime guns came from in recent years.
The Gun Trace Report was put together by the University of Chicago Crime Lab together with the Chicago Police Department.
The report focuses on a snapshot in time, from 2013 to 2016, in which more than 27,000 guns were recovered by authorities. A previous iteration of the report was released in 2014 and focused on gun recovery data from 2011 to 2013.
The new report focuses on about 15,000 recovered weapons, all of them bought at about 5,000 federally licensed dealers in Illinois and elsewhere.
“It is self-evident that the availability of illegally circulated firearms in Chicago is directly connected to its deadly street violence,” the report says in its introduction. “Simply put, each conflict becomes potentially more lethal due to easy access to a gun.”
As of Oct. 30, at least 568 people have been killed in Chicago so far this year, the vast majority of which were killed with a gun. “In an unfortunate but persistent reality, certain retailers and jurisdictions disproportionately account for the

Source: Guns.com