By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News

(CHICAGO)  Mayor Emanuel, Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson plus the FBI and ATF are celebrating the confiscation of 7,000 illegal guns so far this year in Chicago. More than a thousand of them were taken in the south side’s 6th police district in part because of co-operation from the community.

Standing next to a table of confiscated guns, Rahm again called on Governor Rauner to sign the gun dealer licensing bill on his desk, asking “Is he going to use his pen or his politics?”

Also standing next to the mayor was the outspoken Father Michael Pfleger who said, “If we stop the easy access, we don’t have to keep taking them off the street! Governor, do your job!”

Rauner has vetoed gun dealer licensing in the past on the argument it’s burdensome regulation that would cost jobs.

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