CHICAGO — Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering continued to call for a federal ban on assault-style weapons Monday during the City Council’s first meeting since the Independence Day mass shooting.
Following a moment of silence at the start of the meeting, Rotering, sometimes tearfully, sometimes angrily, summed up her efforts to lobby federal officials to institute the sort of ban Highland Park itself imposed nearly a decade ago.
“It is important to note that in 2013, in the wake of (the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre), we sat on this dais and banned assault weapons and large capacity magazines,” she said. “We knew that a federal ban would be the most effective, but a local ban, reflecting the values of this community, was the only option available to us under the law.
