Gun control advocates rallied at the Illinois Capitol on Thursday in support of legislation banning a number of firearms that lawmakers continued to revise throughout the day.
Elise Hauptmann, center, hugs her friend Amy Sabor as a group of activists and survivors board a bus on Jan. 5, 2023, in Highland Park for Springfield to lobby legislators to ban assault-style weapons and high-capacity gun magazines.
Leaving the House after the gun vote, Pritzker told reporters that his presence was meant to convey “that I’ve been engaged in this process all along, wanted to see it through to the end.” The measure was prompted by the mass shooting at Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade that left seven people dead and dozens more injured. State Rep. Bob Morgan, a Deerfield Democrat who marched in the parade with his family, has been leading negotiations in the House.
“Now we know that this topic is contentious. We also may not all agree on the solutions being presented,” he also said. “But what we do know, what we do know, is that gun violence is impacting communities in every single corner of this state.
“This bill does not address the real issues and the solutions to those issues,” McCombie said. “It’s going to make it harder for law enforcement to do their job.”
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