Members of the village board in the northern Chicago suburb of Deerfield have voted unanimously to ban certain semi-automatic firearms.
The amendment to the village’s gun ordinance restricts firearms that village leaders define as assault weapons along with high-capacity magazines. That includes the AR-15, which has been used in mass shootings.
Deerfield has an Arab-American population of about 48 percent, many of which are Muslims.
The new law goes into effect June 13. Residents who don’t remove banned weapons by then face a fine of $1,000 a day.
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