Chicago – such as the lawyer of Cook County, Eileen O’Neill Burke, on Thursday that her office will look for prison for every suspect accused of possessing or using a machine gun.
Although machine guns may seem like remains from the Gangster era, a new variety automatic weapons quickly gain popularity in the streets of Chicago. With the help of a small aftermarket “Switch” device that can be purchased for just $ 25, anyone can convert certain models of pistols, usually glocks, to spray dozens of bullets with a single trigger.
“The bottom line is that if you are convicted of using one of these war weapons in the streets of Cook County, you go to prison,” said Burke.
The O’Neill Burke office said that the policy shift is based on “a fifteen -fold increase in the number of illegally modified firearms found by local law enforcement.”
Converted pistols generate considerable recoil and are very difficult to control, especially for inexperienced shooters they fire on the street. Here is a YouTube video that shows the firing of two converted pistols equipped with drum magazines:
According to the new policy, Front-Line public prosecutors are no longer allowed to argue for reduced charges “if the evidence is sufficient to prove a machine gun or a” machine gun-like device “, said O’Neill Burke’s statement, said the Statement.
“Anyone who has seen one of these modified weapons in action as a shooter in less than two seconds can unload a 30-round drummagazine that these are war weapons that have no room in our communities,” O’Neill, “O” Neill said Burke in a press release. With this policy shift, offer certainty and consistency for public prosecutors, so that they can do their work with confidence to get these incredibly dangerous weapons and the people they use from the street. “
The Chicago police are super. Larry Snelling and Christopher Amon, the special agent responsible for the ATF office, supported the policy change of O’Neill Burke.
When O’Neill Burke took office on December 1, immediately, announced A large number of policy changes, including charging all theft of more than $ 300 as crimes. The Studies Act determines that limit, but its predecessor, Kim Foxx, decided to place the crime bar at $ 1,000. CWBCHCIAGO discovered that theft of the theft of the crime rose by 154% in December.
She also ordered public prosecutors to automatically look for detention for anyone accused of murder, carjacking, armed robbery, house invasion, aggravated battery of a child, domestics with a weapon and any determined crime in which a defendant is accused of use or possession From a ghost gun, extended magazine or machine gun.
In a different policy change, the O’Neill Burke Chicago agents office allows in one of the 22 police districts to submit crime without getting approval from a public prosecutor.
