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 is holding off on enforcing his ruling for 30 days to allow Illinois leaders time to ...

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

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 ...

Rep. Dan Caulkins is calling on Gov. JB Pritzker to stop appealing rulings on the state's assault weapons ban.

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

"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.

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

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 ...