Expert says factors defining assault weapons in Illinois are sometimes trivial
LOCKPORT, Ill. -- The Illinois assault weapons ban is now being reviewed by a federal appeals court after a downstate judge ruled it unconstitutional.But just what factors are put into use in defining an assault weapon in Illinois ? Some say the differences between what is considered an assault weapon and what is not can be trivial.A Taurus TX22, a semiautomatic weapon, is considered an assault weapon and illegal in the state of Illinois .
District Judge Stephen McGlynn, who sits on the federal court in East Saint Louis, saying it violates the Second and 14th amendments of the Constitution. A federal appeals court is now reviewing the ban.'The definition is so broad, and covers things that have no bearing on the mechanical function of firearms or the ballistic performance of ammunition, so a lot of the criteria that the State of Illinois uses to define something as an assault weapon strains logic,' Serritella said.
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