Chicago Tribune is cheering Illinois Governor Blech's attempt to "shore up gun control", by mandating that private citizens get government permission before they sell their gun to anyone. The Governor is also vetoing a law that provides for doing away with Illinois de facto gun registry. And for those of you who still insist that Illinois doesn't have a gun registry:

Of the 157,440 people who applied to buy guns in Illinois last year, 1,108 were denied, state records show. More than 500 of those applicants had expired or canceled firearm owner's permits. The rest were ineligible for reasons including felony convictions, mental incapacity and domestic battery offenses.

The records-destruction bill would have wiped out the records of the approved applications, but not the denied ones.

Got that. There are permanent records for every legal Illinois gun buyer. If that's not a registry, I don't know what is.