Illinois Democrats join Biden in taking aim at 'ghost guns'
Posted April 12, 2022 1:00 am
Illinois is poised to become the first state in the Midwest to ban "ghost guns," as Democrats respond to election-year pressure to curb violent crime and President Joe Biden wages a national war on the "do-it-yourself" firearms.
Holding up a ghost gun in the White House Rose Garden on Monday and warning that "anyone" can make a gun, Biden said "a domestic abuser can go from a gun kit to a gun in as little as 30 minutes."
The federal action comes just days after Illinois Democrats - with no GOP votes - passed legislation to outlaw ghost guns in the waning hours of the legislative session late last week.
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