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Cook County judges started to raise bonds for gun criminals when Chicago violence spiked in 2012, hoping it would keep armed gang members in jail until a decision had been reached on their cases, but that did not happen at all.

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NRATV host Grant Stinchfield said Friday that the Chicago Police Department's expansion of new technology would not be enough to solve Chicago's violence problem, calling for more aggressive police action and prosecution of gun criminals.

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The Trump Administration followed up on the president’s twitter comments Tuesday night stating that he will “send in the Feds” if Chicago authorities do not “fix the horrible ‘carnage’ going on” in the city.

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Chicago gun range zoning restrictions were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Court of Appeals Wednesday, dealing Chicago government another blow in its effort to stop gun ranges from operating within the city.

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The University of Chicago published its annual Crime Lab report on Tuesday, offering informative statistics but precious few reasons for the drastic increase in gun violence Chicago saw in 2016.

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The gun violence did not let up in Chicago for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, as 32 more people were shot over the weekend.

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Where do the guns used in crimes in Chicago come from? The usual answer offered by gun control advocates is that they are brought in from other states.

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Under a proposal, Illinois could be the first to enact ammunition coding legislation that would require unique serial numbers on bullets sold in the state.

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