CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The battle lines remain the same as President Biden moves on executive orders and legislative proposals to help end gun violence.
Illinois Democratic Congress members, like Brad Schneider generally applaud President Biden's actions and proposals on guns. In fact Schneider co-sponsored a bill on so-called “ghost guns" that are sold as kits, and built without traceable serial numbers. He expects pushback.
"We've had pushback on every single thing we've tried to do related to making our communities safer and gun violence," he said.
Richard Pearson, director of the Illinois State Rifle Association, expects ghost guns to soon be regulated as regular weapons with required serial numbers and such.
Does he think it’s an infringement on hobbyist gun owners? Yes, he said. But he agrees that "ghost guns" are a problem, and have often been used in crimes.
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He has bigger issues with other measures, like President Biden ordering that pistols equipped with shoulder braces you can buy should be treated as short-barrelled rifles - taxed more and registered.
"I think that's a mistake. There's a lot of disabled people who use braces to shoot with, and so that would include those and I would be opposed to that," Pearson said.
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Congressman Brad Schneider believes that issue is an exception to the norm, and can be resolved.
"We can manage to those exceptions while keeping in a broader sense our communities and individuals safer," Schneider said.
Pearson believe some other measures, like so-called red flag laws to take guns away from people deemed dangerous, depend on the details written into the bills.
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