Bears linebacker Matthew Adams was arrested earlier this week. According to Patrick Finley and David Struett of the Chicago Sun Times, Adams was arrested on Thursday night in Chicago and charged with “misdemeanor illegal gun possession and possession of a high-capacity magazine and metal-piercing bullets.”
According to the report, police were investigating a car that was reported stolen. Adams was spotted near the vehicle and later told police the car was his. Following a search, the guns were found.
Per Finley and Struett, possession of a high-capacity magazine and metal-piercing bullets is “municipal code violation” in Chicago. Adams has a license for the guns that isn’t usable in Illinois. He has a court hearing on August 24.
“Earlier this morning, we were made aware of an incident involving the arrest of Bears linebacker Matthew Adams,” the team said in a statement yesterday morning (via ESPN’s Courtney Cronin on Twitter). “We are in the process of gathering more information. We will refrain from making any further comment at this time.”
Adams was a seventh-round pick by the Colts in 2018, and he ended up spending four seasons in Indy. He eventually settled into a special teams role, and he collected 55 tackles across 58 regular season contests. He inked a one-year deal with Chicago this offseason, following former Colts defensive coordinator (and current Bears head coach) Matt Eberflus. As the Sun Times points out, this is the second Bears acquisition to get arrested this offseason; receiver Byron Pringle (who has a connection to new Bears GM Ryan Poles) was arrested in February for “reckless driving and driving with a suspended license.”
Just getting ready for deer hunting season, that’s all. You know, some deer wear Kevlar nowadays.
What else do you think law-abiding citizens are using them for? A semi-auto firearm is certainly not a weapon of war, despite what politicians may want you to believe.
Hunting and protection. Exactly what they’re intended for.
Adams is literally not a law-abiding citizen here. Hence his arrest for breaking the law.
Yeah, I agree. But hunting had nothing to do with the article either and I was responding to that.
My old man and I hunted deer and elk for years and never once needed a semi automatic firearm. Protection? Maybe. Hunting? No.
Good for you.
“Hunting” as sport would involve a bow and arrow. That’s a challenge. That’s sport.
If you aren’t good enough for that, maybe one of those rifles you’d see in Old Yeller or something like that.
“Hunting” with an AR-15 is just a loser who can’t shoot straight but still wants to kill stuff.
I don’t hunt, so I don’t have any notions of what is a challenge or not. But kinda just sounds like your opinion. And it’s fine to have opinions. But if I had an AR-15 and I did hunt, I’d probably use it sometimes just have practice with using it.
Yes, that’s my opinion.
Losers who can’t shoot straight but still want to kill stuff might well have a different opinion.
Tens of thousands of Americans are killed every year with guns. Exactly what they’re intended for.
Those 10,000 Illinois guns are really doing their jobs!
Another one of your star players Georgie???
So he reported his own car as stolen? Sounds like there is something more to this story.
Ya, wouldn’t doubt someone saw a black man next to an expensive car and immediately thought he stole it.
While it can be natural for people who don’t think critically to immediately resort to racism, I wonder if people in Chicago would be likely to think that way. You’ve got 4 major sports teams in the Bulls, Cubs, White Sox and Bears and a lot of millionaire players in that city. Quite a few of those players are black. I bet a lot of them drive expensive cars. Probably not that uncommon of a sight.
That’s impossible guns are illegal in Chicago