CHICAGO — The Highland Park City Council on Monday unanimously called for state and national bans on semi-automatic weapons, high-capacity ammunition magazines and body armor, escalating the gun control advocacy some city officials have pursued after the deadly mass shooting at the suburb’s Independence Day parade.
The north suburb has had its own ban on assault-style weapons since 2013, enacted in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, but Mayor Nancy Rotering said a local ordinance is not enough to blunt the threat.
“Mass shootings are a uniquely American problem and Highland Park is not an island,” she said. “No community is safe until broader action is taken.”
