“Our oath, first and foremost, is to uphold the state and national constitutions, and this law is in contrary to that,” Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Bullard said. “It’s my duty to stop civil rights violations from happening in my county.”
A number of sheriffs across Illinois have said they won’t fully enforce the new state law that bans the sale of guns the state classifies as assault grade.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who signed the Protect Illinois Communities Act into law last week, described the decision by sheriffs not to enforce the law as “political grandstanding.” In an open letter Tuesday, DuPage-area lawmakers called on the DuPage County sheriff to uphold and enforce the law.
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