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Chicago PD are getting blasted on Twitter for this bust of a sad-sack, old-timey gun

The world may not be any safer.

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David Covucci

Antique guns and bags of marijuana

Chicago has a very real and very terrible gun violence problem.

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Just this year, 176 people have been killed in the city, and the vast majority are shooting deaths. So any gun that police get off the streets there is a good thing.

That said, this gun bust perhaps shouldn’t have made it to the Chicago PD Twitter feed.

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Did the internet have its way with that revolving rifle and little derringer? Yes, the internet had its way with them.

https://twitter.com/SarcasticPoet33/status/854869792976666628

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https://twitter.com/NoraReed/status/855029722694033410

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https://twitter.com/cxcope/status/855043226939641857

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https://twitter.com/RickGivens/status/854911467375800320

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https://twitter.com/waldojaquith/status/855053170057392132

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https://twitter.com/SoDevolved/status/855045349366530049

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https://twitter.com/bkesling/status/854803586865393665

Despite their tweets rife with mocking disdain, the good people of Twitter dot com are surely happy police are keeping the streets safe.

From rapscallions like these.

 
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