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(The Center Square) – Illinois’ gun and magazine ban will stay in effect pending the outcome in the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, the appeals court ruled Thursday. Illinois banned the ...
CHICAGO (WTVO) — A federal appeals court in Chicago ruled that the Illinois assault weapon ban can remain in effect while the law is debated. This decision came on Thursday as lawyers ...
(The Center Square) – Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is adamant the state must appeal a federal judge’s ruling that its gun and magazine ban is unconstitutional. On the House floor Tuesday, state ...
The Protect Illinois Communities Act (formally known as Public Act 102–1116) is an assault weapons ban signed into Illinois law on January 10, 2023, by Governor J. B. Pritzker, going into immediate effect. [1] The Act bans the sale and distribution of assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and switches in Illinois.
In Illinois, 114,000 people are banned from owning guns because of legal tangles or mental health issues — three-quarters of them haven't surrendered their firearms, according to data the Cook ...
Building, selling, or possessing privately made firearms without serial numbers – so-called "ghost guns" – is banned in Illinois. [83] The state prohibits the sale or possession of "switches". These are devices that can be used to convert a gun to full-automatic fire, where more than one round is fired when the trigger is pulled one time. [54]
Illinois is the ninth state to enact a semi-automatic weapons ban, according to a Jan. 11 press release from the governor’s office. Pritzker signed legislation in May banning the sale and ...
Only the Massachusetts ban remains, but other state laws and local ordinances continue to prohibit carrying nunchaku in specific situations, such as on school grounds or in government facilities, or if carrying in public as a concealed weapon. [23] New York's nunchaku ban was ruled unconstitutional in the 2018 case Maloney v. Singas. [24]