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Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy held a news conference Monday where his department “put on display several of the firearms seized … during the first two weeks of 2013,” according to a police news release.
But that wasn’t exactly the case.
A police spokeswoman said McCarthy had hoped to display 25 weapons from among the more than 300 seized since Jan. 1 — but in fact the ones shown were from last year, as far back as the summer.
Reporters attending the news conference at the Gresham Police District station, 7808 S Halsted St., noticed that inventory information displayed with the firearms indicated they had been collected by police last year. A reporter asked the superintendent about that, and he said the guns weren’t the actual ones seized in 2013, but were “representative” of them.
“Well, you know what the point is? These are representative of what we’re recovering today,” McCarthy said. “The problem is that many of the guns we’re recovering today are arrest evidence, and we can’t display them. So what we’ll do is substitute one for the other. OK?”
Police spokeswoman Melissa Stratton said the department had intended to show this year’s seizures, but the firearms weren’t inventoried in time. The weapons shown “match the guns that we took off the street” in characteristics like maker and caliber, she said.
The spokeswoman said future news conferences are expected to display the guns confiscated in the periods addressed.
psvitek@tribune.com, lford@tribune.com
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