Kimberly Saunders' 17-year-old son, Parnelius Saunders, survived a May 19 machine-gun shooting outside a McDonald's in the Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago. And in Congress, legislators have been going after so-called ghost guns, which are made privately and can't be traced. Supreme Court upheld a ban on bump stocks, which make a semi-automatic rifle such as an AR-15 fire faster. The issue of guns and their accessories is being hotly debated by lawmakers across the country. Since 2018, Cook County prosecutions of auto sears and extended magazines - machine-gun prosecutions - increased from six in 2018 to 201 last year.The number of auto sear-equipped handguns seized by Chicago police skyrocketed from zero in 2018 to 355 last year, leading federal authorities to declare that Chicago has one of the worst switch problems in the country.Eleven of the 13 were in the last two years. Chicago police have recovered extended magazines in at least 13 mass shootings since 2018.The number of extended magazines - those with more than 10 rounds - recovered by Chicago police more than doubled from 2018 to last year, up from 459 to 924, records show.Sanders told authorities he bought the gun in Indiana and the switch for less than $25.ĭespite a longstanding federal ban on auto sears, and a ban on extended magazines in Chicago and surrounding Cook County, the number of guns with the illegal attachments being seized by the city's police department has surged in the last several years, an investigation by the Chicago Sun-Times, WBEZ and NPR has found. The magazine held 34 rounds, according to court records. The Glock came with an extended magazine, making the weapon even deadlier. It's known on the street as a "switch" that turns the gun from a semi-automatic to an automatic weapon. The firearm used was a Glock 19 handgun that had been converted to an illegal high-capacity machine gun with a device known as an auto sear, a square device about the size of a thumbnail. The shooting was related to a fight 20 minutes earlier, police said. Police and prosecutors said Jaylun Sanders, 22, shot him and eight others. "So I took my shirt off, and I begin to put my shirt over his wounds." "Oh, my God, I just walked up there on my son bleeding out," Saunders said. Parnelius Saunders, who was wounded in the shooting outside a McDonald's, seen before the shooting.
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