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The city has also created a gun offender registry, modeled after those in place for sex offenders, although many people in it are already being monitored through parole or probation.

My Life as a Convicted Gun Offender Who Did Nothing Wrong.

According to the alderman, the criminal justice office in Baltimore — which, like New York and Washington, have large gun offender registries — reported that less than five percent of the 1,100 plus gun offenders registered have been rearrested on new gun charges.

"When arranging for a play date with their child's classmate and...going over to the classmate's house, shouldn't Mom and Dad have an opportunity to check whether a gun offender might be registered at that address?" Burke said, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

These laws include the Gun Offender Registration Act for individuals convicted of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, a one handgun every-three-month purchase limit, an Inventory law, which requires city gun dealers to physically examine their inventories twice a year; and a ban on gun coloration kits used to disguise real guns in toy-like colors.

Nearly half of those people arrested for murder last year were repeat gun offenders.

And it is abundantly clear that Illinois needs better laws to hold repeat gun offenders accountable for their crimes".

The nation's first registry of gun offenders was created under a 2006 New York City law, but it is used primarily as a surveillance tool by law enforcement officials and other city agencies and cannot be viewed by the public.

Anita Alvarez, the Cook County state's attorney, said that gun offenders here sometimes get one-year sentences and may serve only about half of their sentences or even less.

The new court is not intended to mete out heavier or lighter sentences for gun offenders, officials said, but to ensure that gun crimes receive the attention they deserve.

In an effort to curb a recent surge in child homicides, Detroit officials unveiled a plan that would punish gun offenders more severely, seize and demolish drug houses, and create a grassroots community action initiative.