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FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2015, file photo, Illinois Sen. Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, speaks at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill. Legislation aimed at curbing gun violence, some of which wouldn't have stood a chance just a few years ago, won approval in the Illinois General Assembly this spring amid scrambling to answer what seem to be ever-increasing instances of mass shootings. Harmon, the Senate sponsor of the legislation, has worked on the plan for years as a means of cutting back on the number of guns sold to straw purchasers who transfer them to criminals.(AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
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