Is That a Rocket in Your Pocket?
A light anti-tank rocket launcher was among 14 guns recovered during execution of multiple search warrants Friday on the West Side One person was charged in the Austin neighborhood crackdown.
Andre Tatum, 41, of the 800 block of North Lawler Avenue was charged with 11 counts of misdemeanor firearms possession and one count of misdemeanor possession of ammunition, according to a release from police. Tatum is a member of the 4-Corner Hustler's street gang, police said.
Chicago Police executing a search warrant allegedly found five semi-automatic handguns, four rifles, two shotguns and 15 boxes of live ammunition of various calibers at Tatum’s home, the release said.
And viewing the accompanying picture, two crossbows. According to various e-mails, the "rocket launcher" was an inert training device. We're wondering if that was leaked out to alleviate citizen fears of military devices turning up on street corners like in so many of our Central and South American neighbors' streets, yards and running gun battles.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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All those weapons recovered and only misdemeanor charges. Got to love Crook county and the Shitty of Shitcago.
This is purely BS propaganda intended to justify J-Fed's secret spy cameras.
Don't buy into the Orwellian BULLSHIT.
An inert rocket launcher than is 100% legal to own and can be purchased at any Army surplus center.
Total BS smoke and mirrors.
Matchboook spy cameras everywhere will solve every crime.
Wakeup Sheep!
Surrender your freedom and privacy for a false sense of security. I think not, stick your spy cameras up your Federal ass.
Why is he only being charged with a misdemeanor?
Interested parties may purchase kilos of weapons-grade enhanced uranium 235, anthrax and C-4 plastique after midnight at Cicero and Washington Blvd. from Pookie. He will be wearing a chartreuse jumpsuit with an orange cape and a tartan deerstalker cap.
Guaranteed best prices in the Western Hemisphere. Cash transactions only. Sale on IEDs.
Congrats on the misdemeanor charges!
Inert or not, if someone pointing that thing in my direction it would be "Adios Muchacho." I'd keep puttin' holes in him until I saw daylight, know what I'm sayin'? Of course, the Department, the City, and myself would then be sued by the so-called "victim's" family. In addition, the newspaper headlines would read "Chicago Police Officer Kills Unarmed Man." Damn. Ain't life a bitch!
whos warrant the area5 one bag gun team ? Doubt it Still doesnt get us a raise quicker.Only thing good safer 4 us
And I Thought Shitford Ct Was Bad
Sounds about Right though, Our Mayor/Police Chief Here Downplay Bad News/Crime On A Normal, Regular Basis.
Only Good News In Shitford Is That Our Mayor Is Under 2 Indictments For Corruption.
How about Yours?
When Is His Turn Gonna Come Up?
"...and 15 boxes of live ammunition of various calibers"
And there you have the solution to the Dept ordering only 300,000 rounds for the Range this year!
They're thinking "out of the box" ! ! !
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Just like the story a few days ago about the retired fireman ( gun collector) and all the dangerous guns the gun team took from him serving a search warrant. Don't get me wrong he should not have had the full auto weapons but this guy was a collector not a gun runner or a gang banger. They also said he had Nazi flags and pitchers of Hitler. No shit he was a collector. well now he is getting 4 years while gang bangers are constantly getting caught with guns and drugs and getting out. Something is rotten in Denmark my friends. I know several top targets in A1 and A2 that are out right now even after being caught with multiple firearms and dope on search warrants. Not to mention all the other cases the beat in the past. Great job gun team
If it was a M72 rocket launcher, it would be inert after firing. Just a hunka platic tubing with a site. Still if it was pointed at me...Boom
"Sale on IEDs.
2/13/2010 01:04:00 AM"
now, if only they were selling IUD's, cheap, we taxpayers might catch a break, in about 10-15 years....
Quit complaining about the misdemeanor charge. You should realize that that scum Anita Alvarez reserves the felony charges for policemen and an occasional figherfighter.
I bet the LAW was just a expended case, meaning the LAW was already fired and had no round in the weapon.
The old 66 MM LAW rocket. One time use and disposible. The "launcher" then is just a piece of junk. You can buy them many places. Technically, you can reload them, but you would need the missle and the expertise to do that. Besides, I really do not think any military uses LAWs anymore. .Looks good in the paper though!!
Empty LAW tube.You can buy those in any Army Navy store.
Hey Wild Bill who'll blow the bad guy away! Wake up! It's an empty fucking tube! Someone pointed it at you and you'd see daylight through it! Blow a guy away pointing an empty tube at you and you'll be sitting in the federal pen. JFed will guarantee it.
And by the way. There's not one illegal gun in the photo, except that they weren't registered. Even the shotguns with the pistol grips have legal barrel lenghts. Whoever made the smoke and mirrors comment is right on.
Those are all airsoft guns and an expended LAW...much ado about nothing.
Why is he only being charged with a misdemeanor?
2/13/2010 01:02:00 AM
What else would you charge him with?
Any of those guns full auto? He a felon? That LAW "rocket" real?
NO, NO, NO, = Fail to Reg and possibly a No FOID, thats it...
Oh Lordy, Lordy!
14 guns recovered and 11 misdemeanor charges? As in, 3 were legally registered? Hopefully, this guy really is connected to the 4-CH and is selling them to shitheads; and not just some collector. By the look of the firearms, I think he's a little bit of both. Nobody needs that many pistol grip shotguns. All in all, good job.
Would appear Valadez law was not used and no felony charges????? Anyone who was there please fill in the facts.
I read elsewhere that the rocket launcher was in fact a single-use relic from the Vietnam era. The sort of thing you can buy at any Army surplus store (as someone else on this board said).
A lot of coppers seem to complain about everyone else on this dept. how about this, making remarks about gun/gang/tact teams if you hate your job so much quit. As for people that work the lock up and complain you get paid 70k a year to handle 15 prisoners, unless u in 15 or 11 or 10 or any other fast working district 5/7. so stop complaining last time i checked lock up was a bid position. if you get stuck working back their i probably know why??? cuase the watch you work on knows your a dog. so lets stop with the comments unless you post your name. if you push a beat car, push a beat car. if your on a beat, work that beat (a lot of old timers know all the players, and i thank them for that) if you want to hand out radios and do some reports on the desk go do them... however stop with the b.s. when we have 7 heads goin in for delivery and possessions, do your job if you don't like it quit
stop complaining
Hell, he should have used that rocket launcher to blow up Madison from Austin to Cicero. Help us cut down on crime.
Anonymous said...
Why is he only being charged with a misdemeanor?
2/13/2010 01:02:00 AM
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Though he was probably a "convicted felon"...Felony Review feels that he was "just chillin'" wif his shit as opposed to woo wooin' and what not...
I am amazaed that all those weapons are going to end up with a misdemeanor BSOL or probation for the offender.
That inert rocket launcher can be bought out of a "Cheaper than Dirt" catalog. It's harmless.
Live ammunition being found is a surprise? I didn't know criminals also kept a supply of blanks and/or snapcaps for training purposes.
The news will do anything to make things seem worse and more dangerous than they really are. Guns and ammo were found. The owners weren't legally able to have the guns and/or they weren't legally acquired. No need to make it sound like they were ready to nuke the city.
Regardless of if the launcher is inert or not, there were still a shitload of guns taken off the street from a thug. Great job guys
Just anudder photo op to convince the shepple that "guns are bad" before the McDonald SCOTUS decision guts the Shitcago anti-gun laws.
It would be a terrible to allow Retired Chicago Police Officers to be allowed to qualify for the Illinois Retired Concealed Carry Permit. I will have no part of it, or allow these retired officers to use any of the existing police facilities for this purpose.
Da Mayor.
Thanks Mayor.
Fuck the gun team. Strokes. All they do is pick on working people wanting protection. If they concentrated on bangers, I would not feel this way. Back to the watch, all of them. They should not have fucked the CFD FF. Simple collector, no one was harmed. Total bullshit.
A catalog listed a totally inert Soviet RPG launcher and grenade for $400.
Thought about it, as it would make an interesting conversation piece over my fireplace mantle.
Then someone mentioned to me (joking, I assume) that I could probably have a cab driver have one of his cousins back in the home country go down to the corner market and for maybe $100 or $200 more get me a live one.
Now that would get me in REAL trouble.....would have to see if it worked....
In Minnesota, there would have been no raid. Here, all those would have been completely legal. The police would not care less if a law-abiding citizen had far more weapons than that. I don't, but I know a lot of people that have a LOT more firepower available and a LOT more ammunition. They don't need full-auto; they hit what they shoot at. So do I, at shorter ranges.
Anonymous said...
Fuck the gun team. Strokes. All they do is pick on working people wanting protection. If they concentrated on bangers, I would not feel this way. Back to the watch, all of them. They should not have fucked the CFD FF. Simple collector, no one was harmed. Total bullshit.
2/13/2010 09:03:00 PM
Agreed nothing like hair gel gun teams screwing over taxpayers what a bunch of morons! disband the 4 hour tour gun teams now would save money and the child bosses would be where they belong!
OH SHIT!!!!!!!!!!
Does this mean I have to put my M-1 ABRAHMS back in the garage? I was buffing it out getting it ready for summer. I was figuring a few circles around Hamlin park and a couple of taps on the West Side Door Bell as I cruised past Belmont and Western.
All bullshit aside,
Wonder what the gun team would do when they found my "model" M-29211-A3 Thermonuclear Device cleverly disguised as a beer tapper? Or those "model" Fragmentation Grenades(called practice dummies) strewn about the house and used as paperweights?
Sure snagging a gun from some working class citizen is a hell of a lot easier than oh lets say raiding a gun house near 39th and Lake Park or (back in the day) Robert Taylor Homes or Avenue O or M,And it sure looks good on paper and on camera posing with all those nasty "assault weapons".Un real. On my FIRST day in the jets on the Northside (lathrop) I was doing a vacant check and found an Ingrams Machine gun,(loaded)480 rounds of ammunition and a few handguns. THAT turned out to be "found property".Heavy weapons found in the epicenter of Gang Land and all it was was "found property". Of course that week I tore the hell out of the rowhouses and found more but the point here is THIS IS WHERE THE GUN TEAM NEEDED TO FOCUS. I know a few guys and gals on the gun teams and they are for the most part STAND UP and DO their jobs. Remember its the STATES ATTORNEYS OFFICE that in MOST to ALL cases fucks up a good felony or a good federal case,so in defense of these guys lets not go ripping on them TOO hard.When intel was available I ALWAYS made that call and they ALWAYS stepped up.
And on the subject of "rocket launchers" and them being pointed at you, Office no disrespect but you as I would SHIT OURSELVES first.I know it SOUNDS all manly to bark about what you would do without being there but you and I both know you would be crouched behind the engine block PRAYING it wasnt real while screaming for help.When the troops arrived them MAYBE you would "shoot till you saw daylight" just admit it. When I found the AR-15's and four grenades in the "tombs" (basement of the jets for you youngins)at Lathrop one of the first words out of my mouth was OH SHIT!,then the cold chill down my back,then the autonomic reach for the shoulder to call help,then drew and remained like that til the first blue shirts showed up.The most beautiful sight in the world that day was an overweight Wagon Guy lumbering towards me in a semi lit basement hallway along with several other guys.So please save the testosterone induced barking for your honey at the bar you're trying to impress.
There are 2 types of people in Chicago. Those of us that quietly plant ourselves on that line on a daily basis and without reservation defend it.Then there are the rest that hide behind us.Which one are you Brother?
There are 2 types of people in Chicago. Those of us that quietly plant ourselves on that line on a daily basis and without reservation defend it.Then there are the rest that hide behind us.Which one are you Brother?
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Amen Brother. Well said.
Can a Chicago Resident, 100% law abiding & tax paying, police respecting and supporting, order, receive and posses an M1 Garand rifle from the Civilian Marksmanship Program?
I hope the 4 Corner Hustler passed the POWER test before he got all those guns.
Can a Chicago Resident, 100% law abiding & tax paying, police respecting and supporting, order, receive and posses an M1 Garand rifle from the Civilian Marksmanship Program
No.
OH NOZ!! 15 WHOLE boxes of ammo?!?!?!? Enough for about an hour at the range.
The LAW is inert and so is about as good as an overgrown straw.
This is ridiculous.
These people would shi* their pants if they opened the door of my gun safe.
These people would shi* their pants if they opened the door of my gun safe.
2/16/2010 03:38:00 PM
you only have ONE gun safe?
Shame on you.
:)
Does this mean I have to put my M-1 ABRAHMS back in the garage? I was buffing it out getting it ready for summer. I was figuring a few circles around Hamlin park and a couple of taps on the West Side Door Bell as I cruised past Belmont and Western......
Hey Chubbie be sure to check out those newly installed Project Latin King Speed Bumps up and down Hoyne and Leavitt.MAYBE you could "accidentally" make a left turn instead of a right with that M-1 Tank and give us a jump start on the demolition of that shit hole.THAT will be a glorious day Brother.Take care and COME SEE US you dont visit like you used to Kojak.
Does this mean I have to put my M-1 ABRAHMS back in the garage? I was buffing it out getting it ready for summer. I was figuring a few circles around Hamlin park and a couple of taps on the West Side Door Bell as I cruised past Belmont and Western.
Hey Lathrop One.......
Do those "economy patrol cars" come with AC and a Beer Cooler? Id LOVE to see THAT trying to fuel up at Area 3. Be good Chubs.
There are 2 types of people in Chicago. Those of us that quietly plant ourselves on that line on a daily basis and without reservation defend it.Then there are the rest that hide behind us.Which one are you Brother?
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Amen Brother. Well said.
2/14/2010 05:33:00 PM
Yeah every once in a while this old Polish Brain shits out a good one. hey sorry, sometimes I detract from the objective and allow my emotions to show.
Sometimes instead of grinding my teeth and walking away I kick the door in and grab the shit head by the throat,sometimes its done in mass with OTHER stand up guys,sometimes its done solo. But I remain humble.And I thank you for the compliment Brother.Truly.
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