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After more than hours of emotional discussion, the western Chicago suburb passed the ordinance, which bans the commercial sale of assault rifles and large...
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Assault rifle sales will be prohibited by the ordinance change but restrictions on handguns were removed from the revision.
If the Naperville City Council bans the sale of certain high-powered weapons, the owner of Law Weapons and Supply insists he'll be forced to seek a court injunction or else go out of business.
The Naperville City Council will vote next week to ban the sale of certain high-powered rifles in the city, but the originally proposed ordinance has been revised to exclude handguns and allow high-powered rifle sales to law enforcement officers and agencies.
Ordinance would prohibit the sale of "assault weapons and large-capacity magazines."