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Three Day Waits for Guns To Become Illinois State Law
The ongoing series of mass shootings across the country prompted Illinois lawmakers to pass a number of measures in 2018 aimed at preventing such tragedies. One of those --- an expansion of a handgun-purchase waiting period to include all firearms --- is taking effect on January 1st.