METROPOLIS — Illinois Senate Bill 8, or the Safety Gun Storage Act, passed on the state House floor Wednesday night, moving it one step closer to being signed into law and strengthening firearm ...

When law enforcement finds a gun while investigating a crime scene, they can track its history on a national database called ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — The safe gun storage plan is one step closer to becoming a law as it passes the Illinois House gun violence prevention committee on Tuesday. This legislation would ...

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 ...

More American children and teens die from firearms than any other cause, but there are more deaths — and wider racial ...

US states that loosened their gun laws following a landmark court ruling saw thousands more childhood firearm deaths than ...

Illinois gun owners would be required by law to lock up their firearms around anyone under 18 or who is considered a person prohibited to have a firearm with a bill that can now be sent to the ...

The Safe Gun Storage Act would ... by Republicans and the Illinois State Rifle Association, which predicted constitutional challenges in court if Pritzker signs it into law. Hardline conservative ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has found that to successfully defend gun control laws, there must be historical analogs that defenders can point to. Josh Witkowski from Illinois Federation for Outdoor ...