Here's All the Guns

Eighty-thousand of them:

• For evidence of the scope of Chicago’s illegal gun problem, look no further than a nondescript warehouse on the city’s far West Side, not far from some of the city’s most violent neighborhoods. There, the Chicago Police Department has packed 80,000 illegal firearms into row after row of shelves, meticulously labeled and guarded by police officers who wait for the green light to destroy them.
  The guns, almost all of which were seized by the department during criminal arrests, range from the common handgun to military rifles to “street sweepers”—guns with oversized, rotary magazines and so much destructive power the National Firearms Act places them in the same category as grenades, mines and poison gas.

Of course, vast numbers of these guns were "illegal" by definitions since ruled unconstitutional by the highest court in the land. We don't envy the lawsuits peeking over the horizon and we are forced to ask ourselves why the Department is broadcasting decades worth of overreach on the part of our political masters? Are they drawing a map for injunctions or what?

As an aside, we were amused that they admit the "ventilation" system does very little to alleviate the smells (and side effects) of literally tons of marijuana stored in the building. That complaint has been ongoing since ERPS occupied the building and ended up being the basis for a number of safety grievances.