More Rifles

Tribune Reporter Peter Nickeas has a decent article about the proliferation of rifles on the southwest side being used extensively in a couple of different Hispanic gang wars:

• One late afternoon over Labor Day weekend in 2016, near the arches welcoming truck drivers into the old stockyards south of Bridgeport, a gunman in a red minivan leveled a rifle and fired at a motorcyclist.
  
  The gunman hit the bike but not the driver. An officer found .223-caliber casings, the kind used in rifles modeled after the AR-15. The rounds leave large, jagged wounds. If used by someone trained to shoot, they can hit a target from 650 yards. A city block is 220 yards.
  
  Two gangs — the Saints and La Razas — had been sporadically using rifles for six months. This was the fourth rifle shooting in seven days. It would get much worse in the months ahead, something an officer at the scene seemed to sense.

As usual, the gun nomenclature used by both Nickeas and the police laves a lot to be desired. They use buzzwords designed to inflame the ill-informed. That's to be expected in a liberal town run by liberal politicians who control the media via liberal editors. But it's an interesting article for the conflicts it outlines, that officers elsewhere might now have a good feel for.

Hey, with Rahm declaring Chicago a "sanctuary city" for the cartel hangers-on, might some of this violence be directly attributable to the 5th Floor at City Hall?