The smoke hadn’t even cleared from Steven Kazmierczak’s massacre before the Brady Campaign and VPC started using it as a springboard for their agenda. Both groups blamed supposedly lax firearms laws for the shooting.
What they failed to mention is that Illinois has some of the strictest laws in the country when it comes to guns.
You want a waiting period? Illinois has one. It’s 72 hours for handguns. You want all sales registered? They’ve got that. Individual cities can (and do) ban guns. In fact, it’s virtually impossible to transport a gun across the state without running afoul of one local ordinance or another. They’ve closed the fictional “gun show loophole,” and the state does not have any provision for civilian carry of firearms, concealed or otherwise.