Offenders with automatic weapons increasingly have our streets under siege, often with more potent weapons than police.
Some of the guns are homemade or altered with devices that turn legal handguns into illegal machine guns.The new leader at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Chicago Field Division told the I-Team the situation is much worse than when he first started with the bureau.
Amon has been a federal agent for 18 years and is newly installed as special agent in charge of the ATF Chicago Field Division, which is working to slow a surge in automatic weapons use. The firearms in question are modified pistols that fire continuously as long as the trigger is pulled, making them essentially pocked-sized submachine guns. Criminals are taking regular semi-automatic handguns, which require a trigger pull for each bullet to be fired, and installing a tiny and illegal metal or plastic switch that makes them fully automatic.Anthony Prisco, 20, of Oak Forest is facing federal charges for allegedly selling 25 machine gun conversion kits.
"Essentially the same powers as a Tommy gun in a pistol. A majority of them are coming from overseas, so places like China, Russia. You can also 3-D print them," he said. "It's an absolute threat not only to our law enforcement officers and citizens of Chicago, it just means that again, we're facing firepower that we, in a lot of cases, have never faced before on the streets.
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