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Illinois first Midwestern state to try to crack down on ‘ghost guns’

By Ryan King
Published May 19, 2022 5:42pm ET
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Illinois first Midwestern state to try to crack down on ‘ghost guns’
A 9mm pistol build kit with a commercial slide and barrel with a polymer frame is displayed during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 11, 2022. President Joe Biden announced a final version of the ghost gun rule, which comes with the White House and the Justice Department under growing pressure to crack down on gun deaths.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law banning so-called ghost guns on Wednesday, making the “Land of Lincoln” the first state in the Midwest to pass such a measure.

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