Mayor Highland Park points to Indiana, Missouri, touting the city's strict gun control after the shootings

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Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotelling said on Wednesday about MSNBC's "The Reid Out" just two days after the shootings at theparadeon July 4th. Advertised the gun control law. Dozens of people were injured. 

Rotelling said, "Everyone goes to Missouri or Indiana, picks up what they like and returns to Illinois, despite the allegedly bought gun. To prevent that, we called for a national gun control law. She passes the background check in her condition. 

Host Joy Reed asked the mayor "dissatisfaction with the fact that there are no existing gun controls that could prevent this man from getting firearms."

FBI agents are shooting on Independence Day Working at the July Parade on July 5, 2022 in Highland Park, Illinois. Police detained Robert "Bobby" E. Climo III, 22, in connection with the shooting. (Photo by Jim Vondruska / Getty Images)

"It's been my beef all the time. Every time we hear about mass shootings, it's always a preface. It has been "It was legally acquired, the weapon was legally acquired." To me, it means that I couldn't pass the proper law for years and years because I don't know when. "I will, Sandy Hook," Rotering replied.

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Then she continued to advertise that Highland Park had a ban on assault weapons, "So let's talk, we feel we need to make that statement. So we passed the assault weapons ban as our city in the wake of Sandy Hook. We did so because the state of Illinois gave us a very small window to pass that law.

Highland Park, Illinois, already has some of the country's strictest gun regulations, along with Chicago and Cook County, which ban attack weapons.

Authorities have confirmed that shooter Robert Klimo has legally purchased weapons that have passed four background checks in Illinois since 2020. 

On the outskirts of Highland Park, Illinois A search for law enforcement agencies after a mass shooting at Highland Park on a parade on July 4th, Chicago, Monday, July 4th.(AP / Nam Y. Huh)

The suspected shooter legally bought a gun in Illinois, but Rotering said: rice field. To be clear, it should be a national ban. There is nothing to stop everyone from going to Missouri or Indiana. They are close enough to pick up what they like and return to Illinois. Who will listen to me, I ask you. 

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Kurimo also flagged"clear and current danger"in 2019 after Highland Park police threatened his family. Regardless, I was able to buy a gun. At that time, police officers confiscated more than 12 knives from Klimo and were returned to his father the same day.

His father, also known as Robert Klimo, later sponsored an application for a FOID (Firearm Owner Identification) card to buy a gun at the age of 19. Illinois police did not complain about the family because they were not arrested in the 2019 case, and there was no further action.

Illinois police say Robert Climo Jr. is his son Applying for a 2019 Firearms Owner ID Card, three years before Robert Climo III was accused of firing at a parade on July 4th at Highland Park. (Facebook, Highland Park Police)

Regarding the idea that mental health is a problem, Rotering said, "This is a problem for the whole world." Insisted, she was "sick" and raised the issue with Senator Mitch McConnell, Kentucky.

She accused the United States of being uniquely plagued by shootings and sought further funding for mental health services.

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