Rauner to sign bill to punish trafficking guns into Illinois

Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed four bills on hunting and fishing during Conservation Day at the Illinois State Fair.

“This is going to be a long-term battle”, Rauner said during an appearance at the Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center. “Human-trafficking predators prey on vulnerable people, and we have”.

Firearm traffickers in IL will be punished with sentences of up to 30 years in prison under legislation Gov. Bruce Rauner signed Tuesday, a move aimed at curbing Chicago’s rampant gun violence. A subsequent conviction for trafficking guns into IL from other states will be punishable by up to 30 years.

The task force shall submit a report with its findings and recommendations to the governor and General Assembly on or before June 30, 2017.

The governor’s staff said he also signed a bill that will provide medical assistance, starting in 2018, to foreign-born victims of human trafficking, torture and other serious crimes. The group said it supports the goal of removing illegal guns from the streets but is skeptical the new law will solve that problem.

” Fighting human trafficking has to be multidisciplinary”.

Gov. Rauner says, “We have young people in care and they have to go through a bureaucracy to be able to play sports”.