Supreme Court IMG_1062 Well, it’s hopefully the final pitch. If the Supreme Court turns away the cert petitions in the almost half-dozen challenges to Illinois’ gun and magazine ban, the lawsuits will still continue to wind their way through the lower courts, but it could be years before they once again reach the High Court. In the meantime we’re likely to see further misreadings or outright disregard for what justices had to say about determining the constitutionality of gun control laws in its Bruen decision.
The cert petitions were filed back in February, after the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a request for an injunction against Illinois’s gun and magazine ban. In their decision, the Seventh Circuit panel bizarrely concluded that AR-15s and other semi-automatic firearms labeled by the state as “assault weapons” are not protected by the Second Amendment because they’re “like” machine guns. The panel also decided […]
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