by Shereen Mohammad | Jun 6, 2022 | Press Release
COOK COUNTY, IL – Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart today urged lawmakers to finally close a loophole that allows thousands of individuals with revoked gun permits to still buy ammunition. “A gun is only dangerous if it is loaded. Right now, there are thousands of...
by Shereen Mohammad | Apr 11, 2022 | Press Release
COOK COUNTY, IL – Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart commended the federal government for working to tighten restrictions on untraceable ‘ghost guns’ that evade background checks and are increasingly showing up on the streets of Chicago. The federal move comes after...
by Shereen Mohammad | Apr 9, 2022 | Press Release
COOK COUNTY, IL – Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart applauded the Illinois General Assembly today for passing legislation to combat the proliferation of unserialized “ghost guns” that make it impossible to trace weapons and harder to solve violent crimes....
by Shereen Mohammad | Oct 14, 2021 | Press Release
COOK COUNTY, IL – Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart and Illinois State Senator Jacqueline Collins proposed legislation today to ban ‘ghost guns,’ which are homemade, untraceable weapons that are increasingly being found by police fighting Chicago area violence....
by Sophia Ansari | Apr 25, 2018 | Press Release
A bill seeking to enact harsher penalties on individuals in custody who expose themselves and conduct lewd behavior while in custody was unanimously passed out of the Criminal Law Committee in the Illinois Senate on Tuesday night. Senate Bill 3104, proposed by Cook...
