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Fast and Furious–Chicago Style

A woman is suing the city of Chicago after she was shot by someone wielding a firearm that was surrendered during a gun buy back event.

FOX 32 reported Willingham was shot in August 2023 with a Glock 21 “surrendered months earlier at a Chicago Police Department gun buyback.”

Willingham subsequently filed suit against Chicago, after it was discovered the gun had allegedly “disappeared while in transit between the [location of the buy back event] and a nearby police station—just blocks apart.”

There’s quite a bit of confusion regarding the provenance of this firearm. It was found in April 2025 in the possession of a 16 year old boy. But it went missing in a room full of police officers and the officer logging the firearms at the event was killed by ‘friendly fire’ .

I’m thinking there’s a lot more going on. I wonder how many firearms have gone missing and if this was just someone getting money by getting guns back into the hands of prohibited persons. Regardless, if a 16 year old can get a gun in Chicago, it just shows that all their laws are useless without proper enforcement.

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12 responses to “Fast and Furious–Chicago Style”

  1. TRoy Avatar
    TRoy

    The “Windy City” is a hive of scum and corruption. This is one example among many. The business district is kept semi-safe during the day. Everywhere else is a free for all. You couldn’t pay me to live there. I used to work there when I had to, but avoided it like the plague.

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  2. B Avatar
    B

    Chicago cops are as (or more) corrupt than most city cops.

    I would wager than 3/8 of the firearms turned in Disappear” en-route to destruction.

    Lots of money to be made for police “Benevolent Fund” that way.
    You’ve seen it yourself in other ways. Free food and such, protection, etc.

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  3. Midwest Chick Avatar
    Midwest Chick

    TRoy–Chicago is the Mos Eisley of the Midwest.

    B–Definitely have seen it with food and protection. It’s on all levels. But they still blame Indiana for the guns on Chicago streets.

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  4. MrLiberty Avatar
    MrLiberty

    Unfortunately her success in her suit will simply burden the taxpayers with more costs. THOSE responsible will NEVER be held accountable, and the sale of “handed in” guns will continue into the future. Government is the greatest evil ever created by man.

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  5. Rick Avatar
    Rick

    Someone did a bit of research to determine with near certainty that the gun traveled only about two or three blocks between the locations of the ‘buy back’ and where the woman was shot.

    What other conclusion can be made that the gun was saved from destruction then sold? Of course it would have to be sold on the lam. Who would be the likely buyer but a criminal or police informant? Would they in turn sell to a criminal?

    The answers are indubitably yes, yes, and yes.

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  6. Stefan v. Avatar
    Stefan v.

    Hand out guns and ammunition with free abandon. Those with the self discipline to learn how and when to use them to best effect will prevail. Lotsa crims and politicians gonna die…which is why they love their gun laws.

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  7. WDS Avatar
    WDS

    The part about the officer getting slain due to friendly fire really got me. Or as Malone from the movie The Untouchables would say, “Thash the Chicaago way!”

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  8. apolcridecoeur Avatar
    apolcridecoeur

    Your fishing for obvious responses here, ain’t you?

    Real news is Boston Mayor Chu telling Pam Bondi and Trump FU on sanctuary cities. This is a whole city in a blue state that has gone anti-American.

    Save the shitcago corruption stories for the cheap seats, eh.

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  9. Midwest Chick Avatar
    Midwest Chick

    MrLiberty–You make some good points.

    Rick–Yes!!

    Stefan–Just south of Chicago, in Joliet, a woman put an intruder to room temperature via bullet ventilation. Broke into her house, she put her baby in a closet to protect it, and then did what she had to do when he broke into her bedroom.

    WDS–That part tweaked my spidey sense as well.

    cri–Comments are nice, but I never post clickbait. I am close by Chicago and what happens there does spill over, especially the gun issue–they try to blame gun shows in Indiana instead of their own gun running miscreants.

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  10. Charles Pergiel Avatar
    Charles Pergiel

    ‘Killed by friendly fire’ sounds like a Netflix plot.
    Once upon a time I thought that all those high speed car chase scenes you see in the movies all came from one incident that happened in Metropolis back in the 50’s. Then I moved to Phoenix. There was a high speed chase every week.

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  11. Unferth Avatar
    Unferth

    Apol, you’re free to create your own blog. If you ask real nicely, and your not just a frothing at the mouth nut-job, MWC might even link to you. Who knows, someone might even read and care what you have to say.

    The chief of police of a city in North Carolina was given the chance to resign to avoid criminal prosecution. Seems his deputies were seizing legally owned firearms, ones the police should have been giving back to the citizens. This chief of police would collect all of these firearms, take them to the local pawn store, and sell them. He’d then take that money and give it back to police department. What got him in trouble is, he’d go back to the pawn shop, purchase the weapons with his own money, and then sell them for what they really were worth.

    Not only does power corrupt, but power attracts the corrupt.

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  12. Midwest Chick Avatar
    Midwest Chick

    Charles–It really does. And yes, every city has its own weirdness.

    Unferth–Thanks! cri’s comments are usually a little more coherent so I’m writing it off to having a bad day. If it happens again though… Interesting story and a good lesson.

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