The Illinois Supreme Court found the state's assault weapons ban constitutional. It was passed after the Highland Park shooting last year.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3049053

The Illinois State Supreme Court found a strict assault weapons ban passed after the Highland Park shooting to be constitutional in a ruling issued Friday.

  • chaogomu@kbin.social
    11·
    1 year ago

    Fun fact, the vast majority of guns used in the commission of a crime, were legally purchased. Not always by the person who used it in a crime, but often resold on the gray market to that person. There are wholesalers who buy guns in bulk (often in Georgia) and then resell those guns on the gray market.

    These gray market guns are often smuggled out of the country to arm drug cartels. It’s a hell of a lot easier to get an American gun into Mexico, than it is to buy a gun legally in Mexico.

      • chaogomu@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        They’re illegal, but enforcement has always been shitty. It’s getting better thanks to a law signed last year.

        But more can still be done. There are still lots of loopholes in gun laws that let criminals buy guns legally.

        • SupraMario@lemmy.world
          6·
          1 year ago

          If you are a felon you cannot own a gun. There are no loop holes. That’s a myth repeated by the anti-gun groups.

          • chaogomu@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            Except for all the convicted felons who own guns.

            There’s also a very racist element to enforcement of that law.

            • SupraMario@lemmy.world
              3·
              1 year ago

              Yeah they do so illegally, which is why they need to enforce the laws on the books not make up more feel good ones that don’t do shit to help curb the violence.

              • chaogomu@kbin.social
                1·
                1 year ago

                You’re wrong about new laws stopping violence. For example, preventing domestic abusers from having guns would drastically lower violence.

                Banning gun show, or requiring all sellers to be able to run background checks, would also drastically lower the number of guns entering the hands of criminals. Several states already ban private sales without said sale being registered and run through a third party who can run a background check, but enforcement is spotty because 2a nuts hate anything that curbs the violence.

                • SupraMario@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Domestic abusers already are not allowed to own firearms…gun shows are not a loop hole and you are required to get a bgc. Private sellers have been asking for decades to allow us access to the NCIS…straw purchases are the number one way for criminals getting firearms and they’re not going after these people usually enough.

    • ducks@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t understand why this is supposed to be some “gun laws don’t work” own instead of an argument for more gun laws.

      • chaogomu@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’s an argument for more gun control, because the current system of doing nothing is not working.