SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois House on Wednesday approved a ban on trigger-enhancing "bump stocks" in its first votes on gun control legislation since a Florida high school massacre and the fatal shooting of a police officer in downtown Chicago.
The House voted 83-31 to prohibit the manufacture or sale of bump stocks or "trigger cranks," which increase the firing rate on rifles, effectively making them assault-style weapons. Lawmakers later voted 64-51 to prohibit anyone younger than 21 from buying or possessing assault-style weapons of the type used in the shooting deaths of 17 students in Parkland, Florida.
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