Dozens of gun control advocates rallied at the Illinois Capitol on Thursday to support legislation banning a number of firearms that lawmakers continued to revise throughout the day.
The gun legislation in the House is one of the major items under consideration during the lame-duck session that began Wednesday and ends Jan. 10. Shoring up Illinois’ already expansive abortion rights in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade is also on top of the Democratic-controlled legislature’s agenda.
Rachel Jacoby, a Highland Park resident and an organizer with the youth-led gun control group March For Our Lives, grew emotional as she talked about participating in her first active shooter drill when she was 7. Late Thursday afternoon, House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch introduced an amended proposal that eliminated a previous provision that would have eliminated the ability for most people under age 21 to receive a firearm owner’s identification card. Welch’s version also raised the maximum magazine capacity to 12 from 10.
A federal ban exists on such devices but law enforcement officials argue that federal prosecutors don’t always take up such cases and attacking the issue through county prosecutors would provide another option. The shooting prompted lawmakers to pass an overhaul of the state’s firearm owner’s identification card system and require the use of federal background checks on private gun sales in 2024, as well as other measures.
Pritzker acknowledged the need to penalize those who would violate the proposed gun restrictions should they become law, despite criticism from minority communities who argue they’re disproportionately affected by such penalties.
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