CRYSTAL LAKE – Area gun owners gathered Sunday as meticulous consumers, inspecting and asking questions about the numerous handguns and rifles on display at a gun show at the Crystal Lake Holiday Inn.

But those owners were equally as attentive to President Barack Obama’s recent gun-control proposal made in the form of legislative recommendations and executive orders after the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., that killed 20 schoolchildren and others last month.

Gun owners who were leaving the Crystal Lake gun show said any federal reform should restrict gun access to criminals and the mentally ill, not the many law-abiding gun owners throughout the country.