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ILLINOIS (WCIA) -- Democrats are escalating their calls for a series new statewide gun control measures in the wake of last week's mass school shooting in Florida, including bans on assault weapons, "ghost guns" and bump stocks, a mandatory license for gun dealers, and a new move to grant courts power to seize weapons from someone flagged as a danger to themselves or others.
"Do we have to wait until a Parkland happens in Illinois for us to take action or for us to take ownership of it," Senator Julie Morrison (D-Deerfield) asked. "There is no reason for anyone to have an assault weapon. There just isn’t. It’s a military grade gun. It is not used for protection. It is not used for hunting. We need to ban those and let communities start piece-by-piece doing that until the federal government to figure out how they’re going to do it at the national level."
Former NRA lobbyist Todd Vandermyde, who now represents gun dealers, opposes a ban on assault weapons and says he uses an AR-15 to hunt deer, coyotes and prairie dogs.
"I hope he enjoys eating that meat when it's all full of bullet holes," heckled state representative Marty Moylan, a Democrat from the Chicago suburbs. Moylan previously proposed a ban on assault weapons in the House, but it fell flat.
"I think the problem you have is you have people who know absolutely nothing about firearms continuing to trying to write firearms policy in the state and they don’t know what they’re talking about," Vandermyde replied.
"ASSAULT WEAPONS"
"It's not 'assault weapons,'" according to Vandermyde. "That's a misnomer. It's a name that was coined by the anti-gun groups who try to equate modern semi-automatic rifles with machine guns. They're not."
While gun rights groups and gun control activists may quibble about the label, the courts will review the letter of the law before upholding or rejecting any legal challenges to new regulations.
"An assault weapon has a very specific definition," Senator Morrison explained.
Morrison's Senate district overlaps with Highland Park, a northern Chicago suburb that passed a ban on assault weapons in 2015 and successfully beat back a legal challenge by the National Rifle Association in federal court. Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering is running in the Democratic primary for Attorney General with gun control as a key plank in her campaign message.
"AR-15s have no business being in the hands of regular folks," Rotering said in an interview with WCIA on Monday. "They are weapons of war. They need to be treated as such."
Rotering says the Illinois General Assembly should use the specific language in the Highland Park ordinance as a template to pass a statewide ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
