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Mostly from Illinois and Indiana—and a surprising percentage come north from Mississippi. As far as how people get them, straw buyers are frequent, but friends, family members, addicts, and burglaries are all available means of illegally obtaining a weapon. Read more

Illinois has long been a key battleground in the debate over the Second Amendment, from the banning of labor militias in the 1870s, to the tommy guns that curtailed Americans' rights to certain types of guns, to Morton Grove's handgun ban, the first in the nation. And that past history, stretching back to the Civil War, determines what the state can and can't do. Read more