While Chicago’s gun laws may be more strict than some states, Gov. Abbott’s statement...
Abbott’s remarks also recalls a long-repeated Republican talking point that Chicago has the toughest gun laws in the nation. It doesn’t.PolitiFact has fact-checked multiple claims on this point. In every case, the reporting has shown Chicago and Illinois do not have the strictest laws compared to other states, although they are tougher than in Texas. Federal court decisions have loosened once-tough restriction, and many experts agree additional reform could have a positive impact.
But the ban was struck down in 2010 in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling McDonald v. City of Chicago, which called such outright bans a violation of the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights. That decision left intact the statewide ban on concealed firearms until two years later when an appeals court declared that unconstitutional as well. Illinois then joined every other state in the nation in allowing licensed citizens to carry concealed firearms.
Those improvements include: Prohibiting the sale of large-capacity magazines and enacting a gun accountability law. The gun control group also suggested Illinois could ban the manufacturing and selling of"ghost guns," firearms that law enforcement can’t track because they lack serial numbers — an issue Illinois has since addressed in state law enacted this year.
"Many factors determine the rates of homicide and violent crime from city to city," said Daniel Webster, a co-director of The remaining 60% of firearms come from out of state, with Indiana as the primary source for one out of every five crime guns.
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