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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

EXPLAINER: Should red-flag law have stopped parade shooting?

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Days after a rooftop gunman killed seven people at a parade, attention has turned to how the assailant obtained multiple guns and whether the laws on Illinois books could have prevented the Independence Day massacre.

Illinois gun laws are generally praised by gun-control advocates as tougher than in most states. But they did not stop Robert E. Crimo III from carrying out the attack in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park.

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