Time for Springfield to Step Up: July 15, 2022

In the wake of the horrific mass shooting in Highland Park, many of us are asking the same question: WHAT CAN WE DO?

The UCE Legislative Advocacy Team urges all of us to demand that Illinois have a special legislative session dedicated to gun violence prevention in Illinois. Specifically, we believe the legislature should immediately consider:

• a ban on assault-type weapons
• a ban on large capacity magazines
• mandatory fingerprinting to get a FOID card

While Congress recently enacted some meaningful but modest gun violence prevention legislation, our influence as citizens is strongest at the state level, so that is where we should focus our efforts in this time of crisis.

Please call and email the leaders listed below, as well as your own state representative and senator, and demand a special legislative session to address the plague of gun violence in Illinois.

• Governor Pritzker – Click here to send an email or call (312) 814-2121 or (312) 814-2122
• Senate President Don Harmon – Click here to send an email or call (708) 848-2002
• Speaker Chris Welch: Click here to send an email or call (708) 450-1000
• Find your senator and representatives here.

For more information, contact Carolyn Laughlin through Realm or at admin@ucevanston.org.