Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering will testify at a U.S. Senate hearing on gun violence after seven people were killed in a July 4th shooting.
Lawmakers will focus on the issue of mass shootings and the growing dangers of widespread access to high-capacity, assault-style weapons, which the panel says can be used to kill large
numbers of people in a matter of seconds.Illinois Senator Dick Durbin who chairs the committee says he wants to ban the sale, import, and manufacture of certain semi-automatic weapons nationwide.
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