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    With less than 6 weeks before deadline, 3,400 gun owners have registered guns covered by Illinois ban

    by Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune Nov 24, 2023 4 minutes
    A display case holds an assortment of rifles that cannot be sold to customers due to the state's sweeping firearms ban at Accuracy Firearms in Effingham, Illinois, on Jan. 26, 2023.

    CHICAGO — Illinois residents who owned guns covered by the state’s sweeping firearms ban before it took effect last January have a little more than one month to register those weapons with the Illinois State Police before facing the possibility of criminal penalties.

    Registration began Oct. 1, and through Nov. 21, 3,439 owners had registered nearly 6,600 guns they owned before those firearms became illegal to possess or sell in Illinois, according to state records.

    While the degree of compliance is impossible to determine, the number of people who had registered through Nov. 21 represented just 0.001% of the 2.4 million people holding Illinois

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