Report: 5100 illegal gun seizures this year

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News

(CHICAGO) Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson are reporting that a record 5,100 illegal guns have been seized so far this year in Chicago.

Eddie Johnson says we should be ashamed that laws are so lax that so many guns are on Chicago streets and the mayor called on Governor Bruce Rauner to change his mind and sign the latest gun dealer licensing bill.

“I want the governor to use his pen not his politics,” says Johnson,” Gun control works. It works along with policing, with prevention like after-school summer jobs and with stiffer sentences for repeat offenders.”

But the governor says he’s against the bill because it’s too burdensome on gun shop owners.

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