A federal judge in East St. Louis on Wednesday heard arguments in a consolidated lawsuit challenging Illinois' sweeping ban on high-powered guns and high-capacity magazines.
Levi Slater, of Accuracy Firearms, shows a Heckler & Koch brand rifle that cannot be sold because of state firearms legislation on Jan. 26, 2023, in Effingham.
The case before McGlynn was a consolidation of several lawsuits challenging the state’s ban on many high-powered guns and high-capacity magazines that were filed by groups including the Illinois State Rifle Association and the National Shooting Sports Foundation.The lawsuits lean heavily on the case of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, in which the U.S.
She said many people prefer these guns because they have features enabling them to fire more accurately at their target if they need to defend themselves, “instead of guns firing indiscriminately like submachine guns.”For the defense, Christopher Wells, chief of the public interest division in the Illinois attorney general’s office, argued that the case law cited by the plaintiffs did not meet the burden to strike down the weapons ban.
“Think about how we regulate many dangerous things in society,” Wells told the judge at one point, pointing to laws against unsafe baby cribs.
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