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

The constitutionality of local bans on “assault weapons,” the phrase used in such laws, has been upheld by the 7th Circuit ...

U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn says the law bans firearms covered by the Second Amendment and is not supported by ...

U.S. Rep Jared Golden, D-Maine, who was born in Lewiston, renounced his opposition to an assault weapons ban a day after the ...

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

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 ...

A federal judge has overturned Illinois’ ban on semiautomatic weapons, leaning on recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that ...

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

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) – ...

The Illinois ban on assault weapons has lost a major court battle. A judge for the U.S. District Court Southern District of ...