After a Chicago shooting wounded 14 in East Garfield Park, Mayor Lori Lightfoot is calling for a statewide ban on assault weapons and 'switches.'
CHICAGO --
"Last night's shooting reminds us that there are too many weapons of war available to criminals," Lightfoot said in a written statement about Monday night's shooting in the 2700-block of West Flournoy Street. "We must have a statewide ban, and I urge the legislature to act." Her appeal came days after a Sun-Times, WBEZ and NPR investigation found that Chicago police in recent years have recovered an increasing number of extended magazines and "auto sears," small devices known on the street as "switches" that allow semiautomatic handguns to fire automatically.
Switches are banned federally, along with bump stocks that similarly turn semiautomatic rifles into automatic weapons. Switches and bump stocks are considered machine guns under federal law - even when they aren't attached to a firearm.
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