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(The Center Square) – Whether Illinois should be enjoined from enforcing the state’s gun and magazine ban starting Monday is now up to a federal appeals court. Illinois enacted the Protect ...
(The Center Square) – With Illinois legislators scheduled back to the capitol Saturday, Jan. 4, some are watching what the lame duck session could mean for gun control laws. During the previous ...
The Protect Illinois Communities Act (formally known as Public Act 102–1116) is an assault weapons ban signed into Illinois law on January 10, 2023, by Governor J. B. Pritzker, going into immediate effect. [1] The Act bans the sale and distribution of assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and switches in Illinois.
For a gun control law to pass constitutional muster, the government must show that the law is consistent with the nation’s “historical tradition of firearms regulations,” a federal judge ...
On its face, Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon, 720 ILCS 5/24-1.6(a)(1), (a)(3)(A) (2008), violated the right to keep and bear arms, as guaranteed by the Second Amendment, because it amounted to a wholesale statutory ban on the exercise of a personal right that was specifically named in and guaranteed by the United States Constitution, as ...
McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), was a landmark [1] decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that found that the right of an individual to "keep and bear arms", as protected under the Second Amendment, is incorporated by the Fourteenth Amendment and is thereby enforceable against the states.
Gun rights advocates, on the other hand, argue eliminating one type of gun from society will not address the underlying causes of gun violence. Ban on all assault weapons? That’s what Illinois ...
However, in 2014 he applied for, and was issued an Illinois FOID card by the Illinois State Police. In March 2014, he was able to buy a gun (which he is believed to have used during the shooting) from a licensed gun dealer in Aurora using that FOID card. [19] [18] Later that month he applied for a concealed carry license from the Illinois State ...