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 ...
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 ...
The lawmaker expects an immediate appeal from Governor JB Pritzker and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul. And although ...
The ban was signed into law in January 2023 and prohibited the sale or transfer of assault rifles and high-capacity magazines ...
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 ...
"Such an attack is too shocking to be so familiar," he added, calling on Congress to ban assault weapons ... embassies until sunset on Thursday as he made his plea for tighter gun controls.
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 decision comes as a federal appeals court in the state last month upheld the assault weapon ban — which was passed last year following a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in the suburbs of ...
A federal judge in Illinois ruled that the state’s assault rifle ban is unconstitutional, arguing that the decision violates the Second Amendment. In U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn’s ...