{"id":487,"date":"2022-11-03T14:16:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=487"},"modified":"2022-11-03T14:16:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:16:35","slug":"crime-fighter-chicagos-lori-lightfoot-wants-to-make-illegal-auto-sears-even-more-illegal-er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"Crime Fighter: Chicago&#8217;s Lori Lightfoot Wants to Make Illegal Auto Sears Even More Illegal-er"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AP_20080764401686-scaled.jpg\" data-caption=\"Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot (AP Photo\/Charles Rex Arbogast)\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AP_20080764401686-scaled.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AP_20080764401686-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AP_20080764401686-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AP_20080764401686-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AP_20080764401686-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AP_20080764401686-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AP_20080764401686-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AP_20080764401686-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AP_20080764401686-217x145.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AP_20080764401686-430x287.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AP_20080764401686-597x398.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot\" title=\"Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot (AP Photo\/Charles Rex Arbogast)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>She also wants to use gang shootings involving illegal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/chicago-police-arresting-buyers-of-chinese-full-auto-glock-switches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GLOCK switches<\/a> and auto sears as an excuse to ban standard capacity magazines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>After a shooting in East Garfield Park left 14 people wounded, Mayor Lori Lightfoot urged state lawmakers Tuesday to ban assault rifles and devices that turn semiautomatic weapons into machine guns.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cLast night\u2019s shooting reminds us that there are too many weapons of war available to criminals,\u201d Lightfoot said in a written statement about Monday night\u2019s shooting in the 2700 block of West Flournoy Street. \u201cWe must have a statewide ban, and I urge the legislature to act.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Mayoral spokesman Ryan Johnson said Lightfoot was \u201creferring to assault weapons and weapons modifications that create automatic firing.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Her appeal came days after a Sun-Times, WBEZ and NPR investigation found that Chicago police in recent years have recovered an increasing number of extended magazines and \u201cauto sears,\u201d small devices known on the street as \u201cswitches\u201d that allow semiautomatic handguns to fire automatically.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>At the same time, the number of machine gun prosecutions and mass shootings has risen. It\u2019s unclear, though, whether a switch-equipped handgun was used in Monday\u2019s mass shooting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Sources said rifle rounds were recovered at the scene and that an automatic weapon appeared to be among multiple guns used. But Johnson and police spokesman Don Terry cited the ongoing investigation in declining to comment on the specific firepower.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Switches are banned federally, along with bump stocks that similarly turn semiautomatic rifles into automatic weapons. Switches and bump stocks are considered machine guns under federal law \u2014 even when they aren\u2019t attached to a firearm.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/crime-fighter-chicagos-lori-lightfoot-wants-to-make-illegal-auto-sears-even-more-illegal-er\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot (AP Photo\/Charles Rex Arbogast) Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 She also wants to use gang shootings involving illegal GLOCK switches and auto sears as an excuse to ban standard capacity magazines. After a shooting in East Garfield Park left 14 people wounded, Mayor Lori Lightfoot urged state lawmakers Tuesday to ban assault [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}