Where ‘Military-Style’ Weapons Are Banned In The US

Weapons

An so-called assault weapons and high capacity magazine ban has come into effect in Illinois after the state legislature voted for the law and governor J.B. Pritzker signed it this week.

During the signing ceremony, Pritzker mentioned the mass shooting the state saw last year at a July 4 parade in Highland Park near Chicago as a reason to pass concrete legislation instead of paying lip service to improvements and sending “thoughts and prayers”.

2022 saw a slew of mass shootings that rocked the United States, also including those at a supermarket in a predominantly black neighborhood in Buffalo, N.Y., at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas, at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., and a Cheasapeake, Va., Walmart, among others. Semiautomatic rifles, often of the AR-15 style, were used in the majority of 2022 mass shootings.

As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz details below, Illinois joins eight states and the District of Columbia in implementing such a ban on ‘military-style’ weapons.

<img alt=”Infographic: Where Military-Style Weapons Are Banned in the U.S.

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