DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick is being criticized and lauded in a packed county board meeting over the Illinois assault weapons ban.
People for and against the controversial Illinois assault weapons ban showed up at a board meeting Tuesday in Wheaton.Hundreds of residents are packed inside the DuPage County Board meeting to voice their concerns about the assault weapons ban.
On Tuesday morning, DuPage County residents from both sides of the aisle, both for and against the ban, filled the county board meeting rooms, passionate about how they feel about this new law."If our new gun laws can save just one child, it's worth it. Do your job, Sheriff Mendrick. You are to enforce laws, not make them," one person said.
The large response comes after DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick said he would not enforce the ban.
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