In wake of Highland Park, Uvalde, other gun slaughters, activists in D.C. plead for assault weapons ban

In the wake of the Highland Park July 4th parade massacre, survivors and activists from the Chicago suburb and Uvalde, Texas — site of a May mass shooting in a school — rally and march at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, July 13, for a federal assault weapons ban. (Lynn Sweet/Sun-Times)

WASHINGTON — “Enough is enough.”

That was the chant Wednesday when a few hundred — many wearing orange T-shirts, most with connections to Highland Park or Uvalde — rallied and marched on Capitol Hill for a federal ban on assault weapons. Later, some went to the White House to huddle with staffers on their uphill mission.