Illinois House overrides Quinn’s gun veto [View all]

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Source: Chicago Daily Herald

SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois House voted Tuesday to override Gov. Pat Quinn's rewrite of a plan to allow people to carry concealed weapons in public.

Suburban lawmakers largely supported a plan approved in May to allow for concealed carry.

Before the vote, Quinn backers were trying to get them to change their minds. Wheeling Township Democrats, for example, sent out messages early this morning urging people to call lawmakers and ask them to support Quinn's side of one of the most controversial issues of the year.

Quinn has suggested, among other things, that people be limited to carrying one gun at a time and larger suburbs be allowed to ban so-called assault weapons. The lawmakers' plan would say suburbs of more than 25,000 could no longer approve new bans 10 days after the new law would take effect.

I wonder who didn't see this one coming?