The Supreme Court refused to block Illinois’s overreaching gun ban law, meaning the case will stay in the lower courts.
The law penalizes civilians who “carries or possesses… manufactures, sells, delivers, imports, or purchases any assault weapon or .50 caliber rifle.” It also contains penalties for people who “sells, manufactures, delivers, imports, possesses, or purchases any assault weapon attachment or .50 caliber cartridge.”
The National Association for Gun Rights asked SCOTUS for a preliminary injunction to preserve the status quo.
The group has to show people would suffer irreparable harm without the injunction before they appeal the Seventh Circuit’s ruling to SCOTUS. From The Chicago Tribune:
It was at least the second court setback this week for opponents of the ban on high-powered guns and high-capacity magazines. On Monday, the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago denied a request from the National Association for Gun Rights and a Naperville gun dealer for a review by the full court of November’s ruling by a three-judge panel that kept the gun ban in place.The Supreme Court in May declined a request by the plaintiffs to block the state and local gun bans until the 7th Circuit appellate case was adjudicated.Legal challenges to the ban are not over. The Supreme Court’s decision on Thursday merely denied the gun rights advocates’ request for a temporary halt on the ban from being enforced until they take a full appeal of the 7th Circuit’s ruling to the high court.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker continues to defend the ban because “as everybody that voted on the law and voted for it, that this is not only a legal undertaking, an appropriate undertaking to keep and safeguard the people of the state of Illinois, but a constitutional one too.”
Can someone explain to these people that even if you vote on something, it doesn’t make it constitutional? (Rhetorical question because they know this.)
The law goes into effect on January 1.
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