Gabrielle Giffords Pushes Gun-Control Measure In Chicago
Giffords Urges Illinois To Use 'Courage'
(CBS) -- Former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, a victim of gun violence, was in Chicago Thursday joining the call to better control the sale of guns in Illinois.
WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore reports.
"Stopping gun violence takes courage, the courage to do what's right, the courage of new ideas," says Giffords, who survived a 2011 assassination attempt on her life in Arizona. She received a serious brain injury.
The legislation co-sponsored by state Sen. Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, has failed to pass before in the Illinois General Assembly. It includes background checks for gun store employees.
"Gun store employees often have access to huge inventories of guns," Harmon says. "It's just common sense to make sure the dealers and their employees are just as responsible as the buyers."
Gun-rights advocates say most gun store employees already have Firearm Owners Identification cards.
They'll almost certainly oppose the bill.
