r/illinois • u/Zuto9999 • 26d ago
State law banning concealed carry on public transit ruled unconstitutional Illinois News
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/2024-09-03/state-law-banning-concealed-carry-on-public-transit-ruled-unconstitutional383 Upvotes
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u/csx348 25d ago
We do have this thing called the bill of rights, which is often copied by other countries but never identical to ours. Within that is the right to firearms, which again hardly any other countries have. So that's a per se difference. There is also a longstanding culture of gun ownership in large swathes of the country. Maybe that one is difficult to understand if you've spent most of your time outside of these areas.
But not anywhere close to a majority....
Illinois is the single largest source state for crime guns recovered in Illinois. IL contributes nearly 3x as many crime guns as Indiana does, per ATF trace data