The Highland Park City Council on Monday unanimously called for state and national bans on semi-automatic weapons, high-capacity ammunition magazines and body armor.
People deliver flowers and leave chalk messages at a new memorial depicting the seven victims near the Central Avenue crime scene on July 7, 2022 in Highland Park.
The north suburb has had its own ban on assault-style weapons since 2013, enacted in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, but Mayor Nancy Rotering said a local ordinance is not enough to blunt the threat.“Mass shootings are a uniquely American problem and Highland Park is not an island,” she said. “No community is safe until broader action is taken.”
It also seeks strengthened background checks, “red flag” laws, waiting periods and age requirements, and the elimination of exceptions to those requirements. Finally, the resolution asks the state to make more comprehensive use of “clear and present danger” reports from police when reviewing applications for gun permits —Stacey Portugal, left, and her son Jacob Portugal, of California, at a memorial for victims of the Independence Day parade mass shooting in Highland Park, Aug 15, 2022.
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