Luis Valdes, a former law enforcement officer currently serving as Florida director of Gun Owners of America (GOA), said although the state of Illinois has some of the most comprehensive gun control laws in the country, that did not prevent the Independence Day mass shooting.
In an interview with NTD’s “Capitol Report” program on July 6, Valdes said the city of Highland Park, Illinois, where the shooting took place, and the city of Highwoods, Illinois, where the alleged shooter lives, both have an “assault weapons” ban and magazine capacity limits.
“As we know with the state of Illinois, they already have universal background checks. They have their Firearms Owners Identification card requirement, which means you have to get a permit just to own a firearm,” he said. “And none of that in any way has resulted in preventing the shooting that happened.”…