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Authorities have arrested a 15-year-old boy for a shooting overnight on Feb. 8. A 17-year-old boy received multiple gunshot wounds to his leg in the 1000 block of West Market Street.
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A new law allowed gun owners to keep assault weapons if they disclosed them. Illinois county registration rates ranged from 0.5% to 1.8%.
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Lawsuit challenges state law passed after 2022 Highland Park Fourth of July shooting that left 7 dead and nearly 50 wounded.
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There are minimal consequences for failing to register, and whether the law is even enforced depends heavily on where you live and how authorities discover an unregistered gun.
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It turns out the more women there are in a state house of representatives, the more likely it is legislation will pass that deals with firearms. That's according to new scholarship by an Illinois State University economist.
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Bloomington Police brought in 217 weapons in a gun buyback program on Sunday. The tally for the no-questions-asked cash event included 66 handguns, 66 rifles, 56 shotguns, 25 assault-style weapons, and four so-called ghost guns that are assembled from parts and do not have a traceable serial number.
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Bloomington Police say the department will try to track down the owner of any weapons that are listed in a database as stolen. He said all other weapons will be destroyed.
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The number of people shot in Bloomington-Normal over the last eight days is now four. None of the injuries has been life-threatening.
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McLean County has seen what coroner Kathy Yoder calls a "startling" trend in suicides.
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The massive influx of federal money for Amtrak from the infrastructure law will help the Chicago-to-St. Louis corridor — even though much of the rolling stock on the corridor has been replaced over the last decade, says Normal Mayor Chris Koos, a nominee to serve on the board of the passenger rail system.