The U.S. Department of Justice is telling a federal appeals court that Illinois’ gun and magazine ban is unconstitutional.

A bill awaiting Gov. JB Pritzker's signature marked a rare instance in which Democrats and Republicans largely agreed on a ...

A measure Illinois lawmakers sent to Gov. JB Pritzker would streamline firearms ID process for low-level gun offenders.

“Each court of appeals that has taken up a challenge to a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines has found these ...

A bill that would require gun owners to keep any firearms in a locked box whenever a minor is present will soon head to Gov. JB Pritzker. Senate Bill 8, also referred to as the Safe Gun Storage ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A bill that would require gun owners to keep any firearms in a locked box whenever a minor is present will soon head to Gov. JB Pritzker. Senate Bill 8, also referred to as ...

The Safe Gun Storage Act also makes changes to a variety of existing Illinois gun laws, including a mandate that firearm owners report a lost or stolen firearm within 48 hours of the owner finding ...

The last-minute addition would strike another $200 tax on the manufacture of gun silencers. But by removing silencers from the purview of the National Firearms Act, lawmakers said that the change ...

New gun safety measures took effect across ... The short answer is no, those kinds of laws are not likely to change much, and recent research tends to support that view. The reason, I think ...

SPRINGFIELD — The deadly shootings at Northern Illinois University are unlikely to trigger major changes in the state’s gun control laws, Illinois officials predicted Friday. Democrat and ...

The law allowed qualified retired officers to carry concealed weapons, even in places where firearms ... Cunningham (D- IL 18th District). "We said, 'Okay, then we will change the state law.'" ...