The same conservative majority that handed down the largest expansion of gun rights in more than a decade last year, denied to block an assault weapons ban.
handed gun control advocates a win in Illinois on Wednesday, declining to immediately block the state's assault weapons ban.
The court denied the National Association for Gun Rights' request for an emergency injunction against Illinois' ban on the sale and new possession of semiautomatic firearms. The order leaves the ban in place for the time being as legal challenges continue to play out in lower courts. The NAGR and a gun shop owner had asked justices to pause enforcement of the ban while awaiting a final ruling on the ban from an appeals court, but the Supreme Court opted not to step in at this stage. Although the vote count was not disclosed and there was no explanation nor dissent on the order, the court has a 6-3 conservative majority.Assault-style rifles are displayed at Freddie Bear Sports on January 11, 2023, in Tinley Park, Illinois. The U.S.
The ban, like others across the nation, were passed in the wake of last year's Supreme Court ruling that handed down the largest expansion of gun rights in more than a decade. Illinois' ban was enacted just months after a mass shooting in Highland Park killed seven people during a Fourth of July parade last year.decision, the court's six conservative justices struck down New York's concealed carry law, expanding Second Amendment rights.
Citing last year's decision, the plaintiffs in the Illinois lawsuit argued that the case is"an exceedingly simple case" and that the lower courts were"clearly wrong." The Seventh Circuit and district court previously denied the request for an immediate injunction pending appeal.
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