In 2020, 40% Gun Sales Were 1st Time Buyers

[2aguy]

Do you have a link to that happening because I can’t find any evidence of it anywhere. The Dems part, I mean. Because last year when all of the criminals were being released it was the Republicans who are doing it because they botched their Covid response and couldn’t keep it keep from killing the prisoners with Covid.

Other countries didn’t have to release their prisoners. We certainly didn’t have to do it here. The things you blame Democrats for are the results of Republican governance.

Moron.....the democrats have been releasing violent criminals long before the chinese Flu...I have listed these policies over and over again......then morons like you complain about copy and paste once it is obvious you don't know what you are talking about....

 

[2aguy]

Meanwhile back in reality, about 1/2 of the states are run by GOP governors...

And the cities, even in Red States like Tennessee, and Louisiana, are run by democrat party mayors....you idiot....it is their policies that are driving the crime rates in primarily democrat party controlled cities.....

 

[2aguy]

Actually a ton were released under Trump to relieve crowding during covid.

Those decisions are under state control, not federal control..

 

[2aguy]

So the Gov of Texas whose board of pardons and paroles releases a prisoner from prison, they go to Houston and commit a crime... and you blame the mayor of Houston for that.

Yeah, you're crazy.

You don't know what you are talking about........they aren't getting to the parole board, they are being released by the local district attorneys, judges.......democrats.......you've seen the articles and now you lie..

Thank you for showing us how you plan on continuing the lie......you will try to hide the actual criminals being released over and over again, by trying to use "parole" boards as cover...the truth shows you are a dishonest asshole...

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Every year, Chicago police officers arrest hundreds of people for violating the city’s gun-offender registration ordinance, a law that requires anyone convicted of gun-related violence or illegal gun possession to go to police headquarters yearly and register their home addresses.

But it’s rare that anyone is punished for failing to comply with the law, modeled on similar measures that were credited with helping reduce crime elsewhere.

That’s according to a Chicago Sun-Times analysis that found most of those cases get dismissed in court — and that’s typically done at the request of lawyers representing City Hall.

Take Devaughn Levi. He was arrested three times in early 2020 for failing to register as a gun offender. But each of those misdemeanor cases was dropped at city lawyers’ request, court records show. Levi is now in jail, charged with felony gun-possession.

To get an idea of how the law is enforced, the Sun-Times examined 33 gun-offender registry arrests that were made in January 2020. In one of those cases, a man got fined $500 — violations carry a possible penalty of a $300-to-$500 fine and six months in jail. All of the other cases were dropped at the request of attorneys for the city.

“The gun-offender registry is BS. What a colossal waste of resources,” says Ald. Matt O’Shea (19th), whose Southwest Side ward is the home of many Chicago police officers. “Who are we kidding? Gun offenders at every level aren’t getting prosecuted. In my opinion, it’s a waste of time. It creates a lot of useless paperwork.”

Chicago requires convicted gun criminals to register, makes arrests but won’t prosecute violators


Chicago...
Demetris Johnson made headlines in 2011 when he was 16-years-old. That’s when prosecutors charged him as an adult with shooting a man to death in a parking lot near his home. A jury later acquitted him.
As an adult, Johnson continued to rack up cases. He was convicted of illegal gun possession twice in 2015. And he just became the fifth person charged with killing or shooting someone in Chicago this year while on bail for a serious felony case.
Johnson was on bail and was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet for pending armed habitual criminal and escape cases when he shot and killed Gino Dameron, age 26, last Wednesday in the 3500 block of South Cottage Grove, prosecutors said.
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Police said Johnson was wearing a Cook County Sheriff’s Office electronic monitoring ankle bracelet at the time of his arrest.
According to prosecutors, Johnson was on electronic monitoring for a pending gun-case even though he escaped from electronic monitoring once before while on bail in the matter.

#5: Man charged with murder while on bail for 3rd gun case and escape | CWB Chicago

Chicago...

A 29-year-old man told police that another passenger lunged at him as he sat on a Blue Line train around 6:50 a.m. on December 4, 2019. The offender began punching the victim in the head and face, then took property from the victim before exiting the train car at LaSalle, police said.
That’s when a good Samaritan intercepted the alleged robber and forced him to lie on the platform at gunpoint until police arrived, according to witnesses and details provided by police.
Prosecutors charged 29-year-old Michael Oliver with robbery in the case. Now, Oliver has pleaded guilty in exchange for a sentence of two years probation in the case, which was overseen by Judge Ursula Walowski.
Probation for a robbery charge is not a bad deal. Maybe he got lucky after all.
Man gets probation in CTA robbery foiled by concealed carry holder | CWB Chicago

Chicago..

Prosecutors on Wednesday charged a Little Village man with murder for his alleged role in the slaying of a man he perceived to be a rival gang member over the weekend. At the time of the killing, Xavier Encarnacion was out of jail on an affordable bail bond for his third gun case.
Encarnacion is the fourth person charged with murder or shooting someone in Chicago this year while on affordable bail for a serious felony.

On May 24, Encarnacion was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Judge David Navarro set his bail at $10,000, meaning Encarnacion posted only $1,000 to get out of jail.
Encarnacion was also charged on January 13 with failing to comply with the violent gun offender registry. He went home on a recognizance bond in that case.
Murphy said Encarnacion received a four-year sentence for attempted unlawful use of a weapon by a felon in 2018 and three years for unlawful use of a weapon by a gang member in 2014.

#4: Man on affordable bail for his 3rd felony gun case is charged with weekend murder | CWB Chicago


Chicago....

Prosecutors on Friday charged a fourth person with killing retired Chicago Fire Dept. Lt. Dwain Williams during a botched carjacking on December 3.
Like one of the other defendants, Jalen Saulsberry has a violent juvenile history and was free on a recognizance bond for gun charges and for possessing a stolen motor vehicle at the time of Williams’ murder.
Saulsberry is at least the 34th person to be charged with shooting or killing someone in Chicago last year while on affordable bail for another serious felony, according to CWBChicago research. Those 34 defendants are accused of killing or shooting a total of 37 people.
During Saulsberry’s bail hearing Friday, Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy said the four defendants trailed Williams in traffic as the 65-year-old drove to a popcorn shop. The group allegedly parked nearby while Williams shopped, then moved in to take his car as he emerged from the store.
Surveillance video of the crime shows Saulsberry getting out of the front passenger seat and moving toward Williams with a gun in his hand along with another armed offender, Murphy said.
Another man, free on bail for two felonies, charged with killing retired fireman in botched carjacking | CWB Chicago

Chicago...

A Chicago man who turned 18 last spring fatally shot his girlfriend while on affordable bail and electronic monitoring for illegally possessing a firearm in November, prosecutors said Wednesday.

He is the second person to be accused of killing another person in Chicago while on bail for serious felonies in 2021.

Last February, Antwon Derrington received 18-months juvenile probation for two robberies he allegedly committed as a minor. Nine months later, on November 6, prosecutors charged him as an adult with unlawful use of a weapon after police allegedly found a loaded handgun in his car.

#2: Man fatally shot girlfriend while on electronic monitoring for November gun case, prosecutors say | CWB Chicago


Chicago......
Welcome to the first 2021 installment of “Not Horrible,” our ongoing series of reports about people who have been charged with committing serious and violent crimes while on bail for other serious and violent crimes.

We borrowed the name “Not Horrible” from a statement Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans made during budget hearings on November 4, 2019: “It’s not by magic that we haven’t had any horrible incidents occur using this new [affordable bail] system.”

So far, CWB reporters have identified 32 people who were charged with committing murder, attempted murder, or aggravated battery with a firearm while free on bail for serious felonies in 2020. Four of the accused men are charged with shooting, and sometimes killing, more than one person.

But the actual number of killings and shootings committed by persons on bail is almost certainly much higher. As of the new year, arrests have been made in just 27% of Chicago’s 2020 murders and 2.7% (Yes. Two point seven percent) of non-fatal shootings, according to CPD data.
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One of those persons is Devin Barron, 20, who collected five convictions as a juvenile and was free on bond for four pending cases at the time of Williams’ murder. One of those pending cases was for a home invasion and kidnapping just five weeks before Williams was killed.

Prosecutors said video shows Barron getting out of the rear passenger seat of a car moments before he shot Williams. According to the state’s allegations, Barron had three guns when police caught up with him.

Murder and more
Antonio Reyes, 17, was given three years probation in juvenile court for aggravated robbery and aggravated battery in December 2019. When he allegedly shot a man last month, he had four more juvenile cases pending — for armed robbery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, unlawful use of a weapon, and a narcotics case — prosecutors said.

Prosecutors have also charged him as an adult with killing a man last summer and, they say, he’s suspected of participating in a third shooting.

Assistant State’s Attorney Kevin Deboni said last month that Reyes shot 26-year-old Davalos Garcia as Garcia waited for his girlfriend to come out of her house on June 24, 2020.

About four hours after Garcia’s murder, a car similar to the one used by his killer was involved in another shooting, but both of the victims in that case survived. Investigators tracked a temporary license plate on the car to an auto body shop that sold the vehicle to the mother of Reyes’ child four days before the murder, Deboni said, but no charges have yet been filed.
At least 32 people charged with murder in Chicago last year were free on bail at the time of the killings | CWB Chicago



Chicago...

A Chicago man was charged Saturday with the attempted murder of an off-duty police officer just after noon New Year’s Day on the West Side. The alleged murder attempt unfolded just two weeks after a judge released the accused man on “affordable bail” for being a felon in possession of a firearm and resisting police.
Jermaine Morris, 34, is also a “person of interest” in yet another shooting, according to a CPD statement. Detectives are currently seeking charges in that case, police said.

CPD: Man tried to kill off-duty cop 2 weeks after getting "affordable bail" in gun case | CWB Chicago


New York....

Shootings are up nearly 96% in the first eleven months of this year. In November alone, there were 115 shootings — a 112% increase from the same time last year.

There were also 28 murders last month, driving the murder rate up 38%.

The commisssioner blamed part of the rise on bail reform measures implemented earlier in the year.

“We have made staggering numbers of gun arrests, taking guns off the streets from felons, doing it almost always without a shot being fired. But when you look three days later, four days later, those individuals are back on the street committing more gun violence,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea told NY1.

NYPD Commissioner: City will End 2020 on 14-Year High for Shootings


Chicago......

A suspected double-murderer who sparked an Amber Alert across Chicagoland on Friday evening is on bail for allegedly killing a woman while fleeing police and for two separate Class X felony armed habitual criminal gun crimes.
Clarence Hebron, 32, had been held without bail on those cases for over a year until a Cook County judge agreed to release him on just $15,000 bond in July.
Hebron has not been charged with Friday’s murder of 26-year-old Jessica Beal and her brother in Riverdale, but police identified him as the suspect in an Amber Alert after Beal’s 1-year-old boy went missing following the homicides. The boy has since been located.
Incredibly, Hebron was also on bail for the two armed habitual criminal cases when he allegedly killed a woman while fleeing police in April last year.

Two gun cases, two bail bonds, then homicide​

Hebron is awaiting trial for two separate major gun cases in which he is charged with a total of two counts of Class X armed habitual criminal, five counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and four counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, according to the Cook County sheriff’s office.
In early 2019, Chicago police and federal agents raided Hebron’s home and recovered a firearm, a source said. Hebron wasn’t home at the time, but his girlfriend and newborn baby were. Police eventually found him, and prosecutors charged him in the case.
The second gun case also started in early 2019. In that incident, cops allegedly found a gun in Hebron’s car after he crashed the vehicle while police followed him on the South Side. He got away, but officers later arrested him at work, according to CPD records.
Hebron was released on bail for both cases.
Just a couple of months later, Hebron again sped away from officers when they tried to stop him for a traffic violation in Englewood on the afternoon of April 18, 2019.
Prosecutors say he crashed his car into a vehicle driven by 32-year-old Dana Hubbard. She died a few days later. He’s charged with reckless homicide by motor vehicle, aggravated fleeing causing bodily injury, and driving on a revoked license resulting in injury or death. A judge ordered him held without bail.
Hebron remained in jail without bail for over a year until his lawyer filed a motion to reduce bail in late June. Three days later, Cook County Judge Dennis Porter slashed Hebron’s bail to $50,000 on each of the three cases.
Suspected double-murderer who sparked Amber Alert is on bail for reckless homicide and 2 gun cases | CWB Chicago

 

[pknopp]

Of course it did. Look it up yourself. Stop and Frisk greatly reduced shootings and murder. I mean, look at NYC today.

So you are in support of confiscating people's guns. Sad to hear.

 

[pknopp]

Stop and Frisk is not unconstitutional, it just needed to be tweaked.

It was ruled unconstitutional. Fact. Your opinion means nothing.

 

[pknopp]

Then why all of a sudden are they buying them from gun dealers now?

I have no idea if "they" all are not. I don't even know who "they" are.

 

[pknopp]

Those decisions are under state control, not federal control..

About 4,000 federal inmates were released to home confinement last year in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Federal prisoners released under COVID-19 provisions face an uncertain future | WTOP

 

[RetiredGySgt]

It was ruled unconstitutional. Fact. Your opinion means nothing.

No it wasn't it was ruled the way they used it was unconstitutional.

 

[pknopp]

No it wasn't it was ruled the way they used it was unconstitutional.

LOL..........

August 12, 2013, New York – In a landmark decision today, a federal court found the New York City Police Department’s highly controversial stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional.

Landmark Decision: Judge Rules NYPD Stop and Frisk Practices Unconstitutional, Racially Discriminatory

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

I have no idea if "they" all are not. I don't even know who "they" are.

They are the additional people purchasing firearms. What do you think we're talking about over here?

 

[pknopp]

They are the additional people purchasing firearms. What do you think we're talking about over here?

I care less where people purchase their guns or why.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

So you are in support of confiscating people's guns. Sad to hear.

I support confiscating guns people are not legally allowed to have or carry, yes. I don't support confiscation of legal firearms owners like the Democrats want.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

I care less where people purchase their guns or why.

Apparently you do or you wouldn't be in this topic right now. What you are trying to do is cast doubt into the OP's claim and source.

 

[pknopp]

I support confiscating guns people are not legally allowed to have or carry, yes. I don't support confiscation of legal firearms owners like the Democrats want.

"Legally allowed". NYC said that was no one. Courts said that was unconstitutional.

 

[pknopp]

Apparently you do or you wouldn't be in this topic right now. What you are trying to do is cast doubt into the OP's claim and source.

I'm in this topic because I had a question concerning the stats that were stated. No one has addressed that yet either. There is no way to determine who is a first time gun owner based upon sale receipts.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

I'm in this topic because I had a question concerning the stats that were stated. No one has addressed that yet either. There is no way to determine who is a first time gun owner based upon sale receipts.

The point is there are more people buying guns as Democrats attempt to destroy our security and police forces. I haven't been to the store in a long time, but my friend recently has. He told me you had a very slim selection of weapons. Ammo is almost impossible to buy, and if you can buy it, it's going to cost you an arm and a leg. So apparently in spite of your unproven flea market claim, more and more Americans are purchasing guns.

 

[pknopp]

The point is there are more people buying guns as Democrats attempt to destroy our security and police forces. I haven't been to the store in a long time, but my friend recently has. He told me you had a very slim selection of weapons. Ammo is almost impossible to buy, and if you can buy it, it's going to cost you an arm and a leg. So apparently in spite of your unproven flea market claim, more and more Americans are purchasing guns.

There may be more people buying guns. Whatever, that's their choice. I never questioned that.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

"Legally allowed". NYC said that was no one. Courts said that was unconstitutional.

If you are carrying a gun without a license, you are not legally allowed to have that weapon. If you are a convicted felon, you are not allowed to legally posses a firearm. It's like that in NYC and it's like that in most states.

 

[pknopp]

If you are carrying a gun without a license, you are not legally allowed to have that weapon. If you are a convicted felon, you are not allowed to legally posses a firearm. It's like that in NYC and it's like that in most states.

Nowhere in the Constitution does it state anything about a license.