Illinois House passes gun dealer licensing act, adds registration requirement

By Chris Eger

SB 337 passed the Illinois House with a modicum of bipartisan support on Tuesday. (Photo: Sam Dunklau/NPR Illinois)
The state House on Tuesday adopted an updated form of the controversial Senate bill that some warn includes a mandate for the State Police to start registering firearms.
The measure, SB 337, passed the House in a 65-49 roll call that included a few Republicans lending their support but fell two votes shy of a veto-proof margin. The bill now heads back to the state Senate, which passed an earlier version two weeks ago, to consider a host of changes added by House lawmakers.
State Rep. Kathleen Willis, D-Addison, described the measure as “A bill that will add to the toolbox to help keep guns out of the wrong people’s hands.”
If signed into law in its current form, state police would issue certifications to gun shops on a sliding fee, and dealers would have to meet a series of new requirements including annual staff training, instituting a gun storage plan and allowing inspections by local law enforcement. A House amendment penned by Willis was adopted that includes language that gun rights groups caution could pave the way for a firearms registration authority for State Police,

Source: Guns.com