IL’s blantantly unconstitutional anti 2A bill tossed in fed court. Their fat ass gov can bloviate all he wants about it. ZERO chance it survives SCOTUS scrutiny. It will lead to the anti 2A sporting rifle bans getting tossed in the other blue states also.
US judge tosses Illinois’ ban on semiautomatic weapons, governor pledges swift appeal
………U.S. District Judge Stephen P. McGlynn, of the Southern District of Illinois, issued a permanent injunction he said applies universally, not just to the lawsuit’s plaintiffs. He decided, however, that the injunction would not take effect for 30 days.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul responded speedily, filing a notice of appeal Friday evening.
The Protect Illinois Communities Act, signed into law in January 2023 by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, took effect Jan. 1. It bans AR-15 rifles and similar guns, large-capacity magazines and an assortment of attachments largely in response to the 2022 Independence Day shooting at a parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park.
The opinion drew heavily from recent landmark Supreme Court rulings expanding on the definition of the Second Amendment’s guarantees.
“Sadly, there are those who seek to usher in a sort of post-Constitution era where the citizens’ individual rights are only as important as they are convenient to a ruling class,” McGlynn wrote in his opinion. “The oft-quoted phrase that ‘no right is absolute’ does not mean that fundamental rights precariously subsist subject to the whims, caprice, or appetite of government officials or judges.”……
https://apnews.com/article/illinois-sem ... 1206892919
90% of their sheriffs refused to enforce it anyway.
https://apnews.com/article/law-enforcem ... be68e60c49