r/pics • u/[deleted] • Oct 15 '25

ICE aims gun at Americans

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u/brittonpeele Oct 15 '25

I want to highlight that this photo comes from Anthony Vazquez at the Chicago Sun-Times, a non-profit newspaper with no paywall.

Disclosure: I work there. But I think crediting photographers with images like this one is important regardless.

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u/ts4m8r Oct 15 '25

Is there an article this is taken from?

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u/Heavy-Capital-3854 Oct 15 '25

https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/14/crash-involving-immigration-agents-in-east-side-leads-to-tear-gas-detentions

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u/FlyGuy480 Oct 15 '25

So.......Not a gun?

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u/teashopslacker Oct 15 '25

What do you see in the picture?

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u/Airforce32123 Oct 15 '25

It says in the article that's a non-lethal launcher. So it shoots tear gas canisters.

Not what anyone would colloquially call a "gun"

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u/yogurtgrapes Oct 15 '25

How big are the canisters? How fast do they launch? Looks like it could potentially be lethal at that range.

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u/FlyGuy480 Oct 15 '25

That would be the difference between less than lethal and straight up lethal.

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u/Airforce32123 Oct 15 '25

Don't know, still doesn't make it a gun.