Owners must seek a Chicago firearms permit, which requires firearms training, a background check and a state-mandated firearm owner's identification card, which requires a different background review for felonies and mental illness.
Earlier this month, St . Louisalderwoman Lyda Krewson introduced a proposal that requires firearms left in cars to be secured in a locked container that is permanently affixed to the vehicle and not visible from the outside, a provision squarely aimed at thwarting thieves.
While both bans have been overturned by courts, Illinois is still one of few states that requires firearm owners to get a special ID.
Army and Marine regulations, formulated in response to the weapons ban, explicitly prohibit deployments for missions that require firearms, and extend the policy to felony domestic violence offenders, too.
In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mr. Holder criticized a recent vote by the House of Representatives to block a new regulation requiring firearms dealers along the Southwest border to report multiple sales of semiautomatic rifles.
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Monday approved a new regulation requiring firearms dealers along the Southwest border to report multiple sales of certain semiautomatic rifles, a rule intended to make it harder for Mexican drug cartels to obtain and smuggle weapons from the United States.
PAGE A8 NATIONAL SEMIAUTOMATIC WEAPONS FACE NEW SALES RULES The Obama administration approved a new regulation requiring firearms dealers along the Southwest border to report multiple sales of certain semiautomatic rifles, a rule intended to make it harder for Mexican drug cartels to obtain and smuggle weapons from the United States.
Also included in the gun lobby's massive expenditures in 2014 is $56.6 million dumped into advertising and promotion to scare politicians into believing that votes for common-sense laws that would, for example, require firearms be locked away, or even just out of reach of children, are career killers. .
The laws require firearms owners to store their firearms locked, unloaded, or both, and make the firearm owners liable when children use a household firearm to threaten or harm themselves or others.
Some states do not require firearms to be locked away, but keep in mind that there are children or others who may obtain access to your firearms or ammunition.
The state places no limit on bulk purchases of handguns, does not require firearm owners to report lost or stolen guns, has not closed the notorious gun-show loophole, does not require safety training or fingerprinting prior to purchase and does not ban large capacity magazines.
