SPRINGFIELD — Despite the urging of Gov. George Ryan, state lawmakers failed to vote Monday on a proposal to rewrite and restore the Safe Neighborhoods Act into law. Key legislators worked throughout the day to forge a compromise that would allow a new version of the law to be passed. But Ryan, who called the special session after the Supreme Court threw out the original law on a technicality, would not budge from his insistence that the new law retain a... (GunPolicy.org)