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Article: Illinois Takes Action on Background Check Records After Virginia Tech
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- August 31, 2007
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS
Contact: Communications in Washington, +1-202-289-5792, or
Jennifer Bishop in Chicago, +1-312-730-8935, both of Brady Campaign
to Prevent Gun Violence
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Rod
Blagojevich today signed into law an important measure to close a
loophole in Illinois' gun laws. A comparable loophole in Virginia
allowed the Virginia Tech shooter to purchase the guns he used to
murder thirty-two people, despite his record of mental instability
and a ruling by a judge that he constituted a threat.
With Governor Blagojevich's signature, Illinois officially became
the third state to close the loophole since the Virginia Tech
shootings, ...