The JR-15 Is a Real Rifle Designed for Children

Illinois is about to pass a new law that would ban gun marketing, gun advertising that specifically markets guns to kids. The first substantive thing the new Republican Congress did in 2017 when they got full control in Washington was facilitate access to firearms for people who had been formally adjudicated to be mentally ill. Now we have kid-sized fully functional semi-automatic military style assault rifles that fire real bullets. California last year in Illinois now are trying at the state level to at least block the marketing of those. But the guns exist and gun groups and their Republican supporters are very much opposed, even to try to regulate the advertising around this new product.