Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Tuesday, October 3, 2017.
Robin Kelly to Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Most guns used in Chicago shootings come from out of state
U.S. representative Robin Kelly told White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders that most guns used in homicides and shootings in Chicago come from outside Illinois, especially Indiana and Wisconsin. “More than ½ of #CHI crime guns come from outside IL, mostly from @VP’s IN & @SpeakerRyan’s WI. This is a reality,” Kelly, who is a Democrat, tweeted at Sanders. When asked about gun control at the White House press briefing Monday, Sanders criticized Chicago’s gun laws and called them ineffective. “I think one of the things that we don’t want to do is try to create laws that won’t create or stop these types of things from happening,” she said. “I think if you look to Chicago, where you had over 4,000 victims of gun-related crimes last year, they have the strictest gun laws in the country, that certainly hasn’t helped there.” [DNAinfo Chicago]
