In an office at the Maywood headquarters for the Cook County sheriff, there’s a large map showing the coverage area for the department.

Cook County is huge, approximately 945 square miles stretching from Northwest suburban Barrington to areas south of Chicago like Calumet City and Lansing.

But Sheriff Tom Dart is worried about a jurisdiction way bigger than that, where he has no control at all -- the state of Indiana.

Especially parts of Northwest Indiana that borders Chicago and the southern reaches of Cook County.

“With the laws that we have on the books, there’s a lot of different things that we can do, something things a little better, within our jurisdiction,” Dart told WBEZ this week. “But when you have this unbelievable flow of guns coming in from another source, where you have no ability to change the laws over there, have no ability really to enforce the laws over there, it makes it very difficult.“

And, more often than not, the source of these guns are Indiana gun shows.

Hunters and gun aficionados converge on these shows held throughout the year across Indiana, including in nearby places like Crown Point and Valparaiso. What has Illinois officials upset, and, it should be said, a lot of Hoosiers as well, is the ability for individuals to buy as many guns as they want without first having to go through a background check. At the gun shows all a buyer needs is an Indiana I.D. that says they’re 18 years old.

Moreover, a recent study by the University of Chicago Crime Lab showed that about 30 percent of guns recovered in Chicago crimes came from Indiana.

FULL STOP!

Did anyone catch that? The illegal gun problem that Chicago and Cook County is overwhelmingly caused by gun trafficking from Indiana......a full 30%.

That would mean, that 70% of the gun problem has nothing to do with Indiana!

Which is the greater number again? 30% or 70%?

See how the media, politicians, and activists deliberately misrepresent the actual facts simply in how they report it? This is a non-issue story where those in charge of Chimpago are blaming everyone but themselves for their problems. Classic.

Chicago and Illinois have the most stringent, anti-gun laws on the books. Even though the MINORITY of the guns recovered at crime scenes come from somewhere else, they are going to bitch, bitch, bitch, lie, and misrepresent the problem in an effort to push restrictive and intrusive gun laws upon ALL.

You can read the rest of the story here if you want.