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SCOTUS UPHOLDS IL Assault Weapon Ban [1]
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Date: 2023-12-14
Holy Lost Appeals, Batman! Call me amazed. I have never made the Rec List. Thank you thank you thank you!
Highland Park, IL is a relatively quiet town on shores of Lake Michigan and a northern suburb of Chicago. I won’t add all of the details about the 2022 July 4th shootings. BUT, this single act was enough for Illinois state legislators to act and make this one happen. The final vote was 64 to 43.
Gun rights groups tried to use the courts to tank the new law earlier this year. SCOTUS said NO!
This is the last decision that I thought would go our way here in Flatland. All other courts that the plaintiffs used to get this law turned over this year have let the law stand.
I have not read any responses from the 2AR folks yet. I strongly suspect that this will cause heads to explode in the assault gun community. Hopefully having the highest court in the land tell gun rights activists that the law stands in Illinois will me incentive for other states to join suit.
Maybe senatorial ethics warnings are having an effect . Who knows, but for now, This is wonderful news.
I personally have friends who were there and literally ran for their lives. Another friend was in the turning lane when a mass of police squads arrived and took the suspect into custody.
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