The report recommends barring gun permits — even with sponsorship — for minors, banning high-capacity magazines and strengthening the red flag law.
Pictures of the seven people killed during the Fourth of July parade shooting are displayed at a memorial in Port Clinton Square on July 11, 2022, in Highland Park.
The more than a dozen recommended changes would also address high rates of suicide, a particular problem in downstate Illinois, and Chicago’s unrelenting shootings and homicides, said Lisa Geller, who is a researcher at the Hopkins gun center and a co-author of the report. The report states that the Illinois counties with the proportionately highest gun rate deaths are downstate in St. Clair, Massac and Vermilion counties. That is because suicides are included in the data.
Those in that age group — 18 to 20 — have high rates of both homicides and suicides and engage in risky behavior that leads to accidental gun injury as well, the report states. Red flag laws, which exist in 19 states and the District of Columbia, allow for petitioners to ask a judge to order the removal of firearms and bar new purchases for individuals who are deemed to be at risk of harming themselves or others. Early research suggests that the laws have been used when respondents have threatened homicide, including mass shootings.
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