It's Inauguration Day for Illinois Governor JB Pritzker in Springfield as work in state Senate on assault weapons bill continues.
Governor Pritzker is set to be sworn into his second term in office at 11:30 a.m. in Springfield.
But, Monday's political party comes on the heels of the state's potentially historic assault weapons ban, now facing trouble in the senate. The senate is expected to further modify its version of the bill over the next day or two, before heading to the floor for a vote "We have been speed-dating senators, going door-to-door and knocking on their doors and talking to them about what we really need in the bill," Harper said. "We want to serialization and registration put back into the bill."
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