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"When you look at it, we were the last of 50 states to implement this law. We act like this was some big new deal. In reality, everyone else had been doing it for many years, and there just haven't been any problems," Aurora Police Commander Paul Nelson said. "There was no reason for us to expect that it would be different in Illinois."

In Illinois, concealed carry of guns has quiet first year; expansion sought Keith Hearn was getting out of his car in front of his home in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood when, as he tells it, police pulled up and told him he had committed a minor traffic offense.