The Illinois assault weapons ban is now being reviewed by a federal appeals court after a downstate judge ruled it ...
In that ruling, the court said that for firearms ... McGlynn sided with plaintiffs who argued the Illinois assault weapons ban does not fit within the Supreme Court's framework, and who argued ...
Some say the differences between what is considered an assault weapon and what is not can be trivial. Suzanne Le Mignot reports.
Whether Illinois should be enjoined from enforcing the state’s gun and magazine ban starting Monday is now up to a federal ...
A federal judge deemed Illinois' ban on assault weapons unconstitutional Friday, according to multiple outlets, though state Gov. J.B. Pritzker has vowed to appeal the ruling that overturned the ...
In January 2023, both the Illinois House and Senate passed the measure to ban the sale, manufacture, delivery and purchase of assault weapons. Under the law, Illinois residents who already owned ...
McGlynn's ruling is only the latest development in a complicated legal saga over the state assault weapon ban going back nearly two years. Illinois lawmakers first passed the assault weapon ban, as ...
CHICAGO -- A federal judge in East St. Louis on Friday struck down Illinois' assault weapons ban on the grounds that ... considers it, and rules on one side or the other, or whether the Supreme ...
in a case challenging Cook County’s local assault weapons ban. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul did not immediately comment on McGlynn’s ruling. Gov. JB Pritzker issued a statement saying ...
A federal judge has ruled Illinois' assault weapons ban is unconstitutional, according to a decision released Friday.
The Rabbit and Duck illusion, included in the ruling from U.S. District Judge Stephen P. McGlynn finding Illinois’ assault weapons ban unconstitutional. “The AR-15 is the Rorschach test of ...
(WCIA) — The Illinois ban on assault weapons has lost a major court battle ... to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment,” the ruling reads. Also overturned was State Police’s registration ...