Kevin over at The Smallest Minority is keeping tabs on the recent Chicago shooting, in which six people were tragically murdered. The shooter was killed by police, so he can't be charged with anything. The previous owner of the gun was a cop, who died last year, so he can't be held accountable. The owner before him was also a cop, also currently dead, so he cannot be charged either. How about the guy that owned the gun originally?

That would be Milton Beuck, who owned the gun from 1966 to 1994, and is currently homeless. While Beuck owned the gun legally, and had registered it as required by law, he failed to maintain the sales record (from 1994) for the required 10 years. Apparently, being homeless has put a damper on his record keeping. Falling one year short of the record keeping deadline, he makes the perfect sacrificial lamb for Chicago prosecutors.

Beuck has been arrested, and charged with not keeping the sales record for the required 10 years. His bond has been set at a staggering $100,000, because of the seriousness of the "eventual crime"; a murder which, as Kevin notes, he did not commit. Ironically, it was because he complied with the law and kept a registration record, that the firearm was traced back to him.

While Beuck was the original owner of the gun, he legally sold it to a police officer back in 1994, who sold it to another police officer some time prior to 1997. Both officers are deceased, and neither had registered the firearm (which is required by law). Because they did not keep the required records, how it got into the murderer's hands is not yet known and may never be.