Posted on 05/17/2023 8:32:30 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Supreme Court declined to immediately block Illinois’s assault weapons and high-capacity magazine bans, leaving them in place, for now.
A gun rights group and gun shop owner asked the justices to pause the law’s enforcement by intervening in the case ahead of an appeals court’s final ruling. The lawsuit also challenges an ordinance in Naperville, Ill., that bans the sale of assault rifles.
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Of course. Don’t you know citizens and anyone visiting that state are going to be much safer because of that law? Wonder why the obozos never go back to visit?
Question: Most deaths by firearm in Illinois seem to come from gang violence in Chicago — how often is an “assault rifle” used in Chicago gang shootings?
My uncle lives there and his guns aren’t going anywhere.
How often are legally owned firearm used in shootings in Chicago?
“RIP Illinois”
?, they just opened the door for all the other cities and states to do the same. This is not just an Illinois problem, this inaction will set a precedent that affects the whole nation.
Premature. SCOTUS will take it up if they need to after the appeals court ruling.
I can see their point. Firearms labeled as “assault” or “assault style” can be really scary. Especially the dangerous end.
Of course my .44 magnum revolver (”the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off,”) could never be an “assault” or assault-style” weapon.
It’s just not scary enough . . .
It is very, very rare for the SC to allow leap frogging. The appeals will have to be exhausted. I think the SC wishes the 2nd wasn’t there but thank God it is.
There are already other assault weapon and "large" capacity magazine laws being challenged in other courts, so granting this injunction to Illinois would have influenced those other cases in Kalifornia and New Jersey.
Thank goodness.....Chicago is saved!
And you can bet IL will slow walk that.
All new gun laws should be tested on Chicago first to see if they stop the shootings.
“Of course my .44 magnum revolver (”the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off,”) could never be an “assault” or assault-style” weapon.”
Maybe not the wording. But taking away semi-automatic rifles, which is what the left actually wants to do with the “assault” label, is just the first step. Your .44 is just further down their “politically possible today” list.
Correct, the Court did not rule in favor of the ban. The Court only ruled that the case has to go through the normal appeals process. Basically the plaintiffs are not allowed to cut ahead of all the other cases being appealed.
Fifty five years ago the most terrifying guns in the US were the .22 Saturday Night Special, foreign made .25 cal pocket pistol, and the import of 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifles!
Ban these and the US would have no crime! So they did. How did that work out for you America!
What does Illinois consider an “assault weapon” and where is a the line drawn for “high-capacity” magazines?
“All new gun laws should be tested on Chicago first to see if they stop the shootings.”
They have been for years already. But they blatantly ignore the real time proven results. They live in an alternate illogical reality.
It’s difficult to hold an assault rifle sideways ‘gangsta’ style.
Barrett could have easily and justifiably put a stay on the bloody thing pending 7th circuit ruling. But oh no, now we are left dangling in the breeze waiting on these lazy ass poppinjay judges.
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