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It also requires state police to set up a database to track all guns that are reported stolen to compare with gun transfer records. Concerns over such weapons have even become part of the national debate on gun control. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The overwhelming majority of firearms are bought through commercial sales, produced by manufacturers and sold by retailers that are federally licensed and regulated.

Chicago Tribune reporter Dan Petrella contributed from Chicago. Skip to content. In this video screenshot from an Oct. But ghost guns still could likely skirt both of those provisions. American hobbyists have long been able to make firearms legally, the group said.

Latest Breaking News. The court, responding to challenges from Republicans and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, had admonished Democrats to listen to concerns from ethnic and racial voting rights groups in putting together the map that was approved in September. In approving both the original and revised maps, Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Pritzker contended that the new boundaries complied with state and federal voting rights laws.

Democratic lawmakers passed and Pritzker signed the updated map last month, but they did not repeal the earlier map based on population estimates that Pritzker signed into law in June. That prompted concerns that if the new map was ruled unconstitutional, the legislative election process would automatically revert to the estimated-population map.

The court said it needed to rule on the original map, which it found to be unconstitutional for violating federal equal protection and one-person, one-vote guarantees, to stop any use of the initial map. With census results delayed until mid-August, Democrats used the estimated data to enact the first map to meet a constitutional June 30 deadline. Advocacy Impact Day Virtual event. Virtual Chapter Leadership Retreat During the Virtual Chapter Leadership Retreat, chapter leaders experienced three days of valuable forward-thinking knowledge, idea-sharing, and best practices from a number of sessions and educational content to help continue growing their leadership skills and reinvent their approach to chapter leadership and management.

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