The proposed legislation would ban the future sale of a list of guns defined as assault weapons. While the bill is many stages away from becoming law, leading Democrats are committed to its passage.
In both cases, assailants fired into crowds, killing seven and wounding dozens more in Highland Park and killing one and injuring 13 others in East Garfield Park.
Survivors of mass shootings in suburban Highland Park and the East Garfield Park community of Chicago testify before an Illinois House committee in support of a proposal to ban assault weapons.
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