2 years in prison for selling guns used in gang shootings

College freshman Malcolm Stuckey was at a birthday party in the Englewood neighborhood on a warm May night four years ago when two reputed gang members pulled a vehicle into an adjacent alley and got out with guns drawn.

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“Kids are being killed on the streets of Chicago with guns like this,” Gettleman said. “Thirty rounds? That’s not for self protection. You can’t even fit that in your pocket.”

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Prosecutors said Smalley purchased a total of 25 guns from dealers around the Natchez area between 2014 and 2016 and resold them to relatives some of whom he knew were felons affiliated with street gang members. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were text messages from Smalley’s brother in law explaining he needed Smalley to get canada goose outlet in usa him a gun that won’t “keep jammin,” according to a court filing by prosecutors last month.

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Smalley also texted with his brother a reputed gang member about getting guns and ammunition, at one point sending canada goose outlet in uk his brother a photo of himself holding a gun with an extended magazine, the filing said. In one exchange in October 2015, Smalley’s brother canada goose outlet florida even admitted that he’d shot someone.

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On July 27, 2014, Chicago police arrested Taylor as he allegedly tried to conceal a canada goose outlet different loaded handgun inside a Porsche, the records allege. That gun had been purchased by Smalley a week earlier in Natchez, according to the search warrant affidavit.

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One gun was found April 28, 2014, in a rented van after Illinois State Police received a call that four men had crashed the vehicle on canada goose outlet michigan an expressway and fled, Edenfeld said. That gun had been purchased by Smalley in Mississippi just 18 days earlier.

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