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Emanuel Wants To Require Videotaping Of All Gun Sales In Chicago
May 27, 2014
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CHICAGO (CBS) – The Emanuel administration has outlined a plan to impose strict regulations on gun shops that open within city limits, including a requirement to record every sale on video.

WBBM Newsradio Political Editor Craig Dellimore reports the Emanuel administration and Chicago Police have created a report with the help of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, envisioning a plan to require gun store employees to submit to criminal background checks, and receive training on identifying potential gun traffickers.

Under Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposed, gun shops in Chicago could not be located within 500 feet of a school or park – limiting them to very small pockets of the city covering less than .5 percent of Chicago.

The shops would have to install exterior lighting, surveillance cameras, and alarm systems, and provide secure storage of guns and ammunition. Police would have to approve a store’s security plan before it could open.

Cameras would have to record all sales of guns, and shops would not be allowed to sell more than one handgun per month to a single customer.

“Now that we’re required to allow gun sales within the city limits we do it in a way that does not undermine our public safety goals,” said Emanuel said during a police awards ceremony.

CBS 2's Jay Levine reports many of the weapons used in crimes and confiscated by police have come from out of state. Others from just outside the city, from gun shops like Chucks, which a University of Chicago study found sold weapons which ended up in the hands of people who shouldn’t have them. Chuck’s had no comment when CBS 2 called Tuesday.

Ald. Walter Burnett Jr. (27th) said the regulations are a good start.

“This is just letting everyone know that we here in the city of Chicago are very serious about gun trafficking going on in the city of Chicago,” he said. “So we want to make sure if a person is proposing to do some gun trafficking here, we want to limit them as much as possible.”

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