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U.S. Supreme Court leaves Illinois assault weapons ban in place

Law was passed following Highland Park shooting in 2022, and has been challenged by gun shops and gun rights groups

The Supreme Court has finally decided whether the Illinois assault weapons ban is illegal and decided that the gun ban stay in place.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill banning the sale of so-called assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in January.

The Supreme Court refused, again, to block Illinois’s ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines Thursday. A gun rights group and gun shop owner argue the bans violate their Second Amendment rights and asked the justices to step in on an emergency basis to block enforcement. The plaintiffs made a similar request in the spring, which…

The high court had been asked to issue an injunction that would have blocked the year-old law, which prohibits the possession, manufacture or sale of semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines.

The US Supreme Court refused to block an Illinois law that starting next year will ban the sale of semiautomatic assault-style rifles and large-capacity magazines.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday again declined to block a Democratic-backed state ban in Illinois on assault-style rifles and large capacity magazines enacted after a deadly mass shooting in... -December 14, 2023 at 02:15 pm EST - MarketScreener

(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday again declined to block a Democratic-backed state ban in Illinois on assault-style rifles and large capacity magazines enacted after a deadly mass shooting in Chicago's Highland Park suburb in 2022, rejecting a renewed request by a firearms retailer and a national gun rights group. The justices' action leaves the law in place pending an appeal by the National Association for Gun Rights, Robert Bevis, and his firearms store, Law Weapons &#x...

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday again declined to block a Democratic-backed state ban in Illinois on assault-style rifle...