You're right. Tell that to the conservative "third party" voters.
You're involved too, Texan. Little town, Morton Grove, next door, banned handguns. Federal appeals and all, lawyers, judges, even the Supremes (Court not singers). Now it's the law of the land. Your town can do it too. It's about all of us.
What some states have done is enact a premption law which states that no municipality can enact any gun law that is more restrictive than the state's. Obviously, Illinois doesn't have one of those.