U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn is holding off on enforcing his ruling for 30 days to allow Illinois leaders time to ...

The lawmaker expects an immediate appeal from Governor JB Pritzker and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul. And although ...

Officials in the state have already filed an appeal after the Trump-appointed judge’s ruling, which cites recent Supreme ...

The ban was signed into law in January 2023 and prohibited the sale or transfer of assault rifles and high-capacity magazines ...

From 1994 through 2004, a federal ban on ‘assault weapons’ was in place, and it had no detectable effect on crime. We have a unique advantage in judging calls for a ban on so-called assault ...

SPRINGFIELD – A federal judge in East St. Louis on Friday struck down Illinois’ assault weapons ban on the grounds that it ...

Most forms of the gun had been prohibited under the 1994 federal assault weapons ban that was allowed to expire in 2004, following ferocious lobbying by the National Rifle Association. People pay ...

Cook County gun owners refiled their decade-old Second Amendment challenge to the county’s assault-weapon ban in a case that went all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court and back. CHICAGO (CN) – ...

"Make no mistake, we know that an assault weapon ban can work because it has worked before," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a floor speech. Assault weapons were banned in the US in 1994 ...

Prior to the shooting, the state boasted regulations that closely tracked the federal assault-weapons ban, which included a two-prong test for prohibiting semiautomatic weapons. While previous ...

A Denver man was sentenced to a decade in prison for a road rage assault in Douglas County, which was caught on a driver's dash camera. The dash camera catches the scene at around the one-minute mark.

A federal judge has ruled Illinois' assault weapons ban is unconstitutional, according to a decision released Friday.