The plan is, you offer a car for sale on FuckedBook MarketPlace, insisting on a cash sale. Then, when the prospective buyer shows up with pockets bulging with the stuff, you say “Oops! Sorry, there’s no car but we’ll take your cash anyway!” You’ll even have a gun in case things get nasty.
Sadly for the planners in this particular case, their prospective buyer came not only with cash, but with his own gun. Legally owned*.
So when these assholes did the shooty thing, he did the shooty thing right back and sent one of the choirboys to join the celestial one.
Even though this happened in Illinois (Peoria, not Chicago thanl goodness), the cops weren’t interested in the choirboy’s problems, and gathered around Our Hero instead, offering congratulations and attaboys for helping them manage crime in their town. Okay, actually:
He was released without any charges.
Good enough.
*here’s what interests me:
The robbery victim who fired a shot was a legal gun owner in another state and had a license to carry the weapon from one state to another.
What is this latter license? As far as I know, Illinois doesn’t recognize any CCPs from other states. Can anyone enlighten me on this?
Reporter probably has no clue. Lawful carrier might also have been a judge/prosecutor/retired LEO or one of those classes of people whom are sometimes permitted to carry by the grace of having worked for “the man” in the past.
this is the only way to truly get the crime rate down. Reduce recidivism
JQ
To expand on Raven woods comments, any commissioned law enforcement officer, full time or reserve, active or retired, can carry anywhere in the country. There are a couple of requirements like being current on weapon qualification and carrying the proper documentation. This is a federal law and therefore works in third world pest holes like New Jersey and Massachusetts. I recall that we had a spirited discussion of this law here back in the old days, so I won’t stir up the ” rightness” of national LEO carry, but rather just speak to its existence. It worked in this case.
Making a cash deal on a car or any bigger ticket item is very dangerous for all parties involved even when intent is honorable. A few years ago I sold an old beater pickup. There wasn’t a huge amount of cash involved, but I and my son were both armed, and the buyer (a guy in his late 20s) and his mom (!) were also carrying. We met in a church parking lot during business hours to check out the truck. I kept thinking about the news coverage if that deal had gone bad, but fortunately the guy drove off in his “new to him” work truck and son and I went home to lock the money up in my safe.
The People’s Republic of Illinois allows non-residents to apply for an Illinois CCW. This person may have done so, or he might have his state’s license and the non-Communist LEO decided to ignore that part of the (unconstitutional) law.
Illinois concealed carry law is stupid and stupidly complicated. Like all of their gun laws.
As a resident of Illinois, without a license, you can’t carry in your car or on your person.
As a resident of Texas, with a license, in Illinois you can’t carry on your person. But you can carry in your car.
Illinois apparently has no reciprocity with other states, but does allow for out-of-state licensing and one of the online AI chat thingies tells me residents of certain states can get temporary licenses.