Illinois victim who backed concealed carry gets permit

Friday, March 7, 2014

ST. LOUIS -- A Southern Illinois retiree whose legal fight helped bring about an end to the state's last-in-the-nation ban on concealed carry has become among the state's first to get her permit to have a handgun in public.

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