The Safe Gun Storage Act requires owners to keep weapons in a locked box around minors and at-risk individuals. Another bill requires law enforcement agencies to use a federal tracing system to track firearms.

Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) signed two pieces of legislation on gun safety into law on Monday. The Safe Gun Storage Act requires gun owners to keep their firearms in a locked box in situations or places where a minor could gain access to them.

I'm tired, frankly, of treating something completely preventable as inevitable,” Pritzker said. “I'm tired of forcing our children to duck and cover because too many politicians are ducking and coveri