
Christopher Amon sees a story behind every gun found at a crime scene — from where it was born to how it wound up in the wrong hands.
The nearly 20-year veteran of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Chicago suffers from the same type of gun crime he’s seen elsewhere. Except here, police say they took more than 12,000 guns off the streets in each of the last two years.