A judge has granted a limited pause on Illinois' new gun law backed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who began his second gubernatorial term by signing the ban
The law, signed by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, caps the sale of high-capacity ammunition magazines, bans “switches” that allow semiautomatic firearms to fire rounds automatically and “extends the ability of courts to prevent dangerous individuals from possessing a gun through firearm restraining orders.” So-called “switches” that effectively turn a semiautomatic firearm into an automatic firearm are already prohibited in most circumstances under federal firearms laws.
One is filed in the Southern District of Illinois by multiple gun-rights groups and another was filed in Crawford County. Both are presently awaiting court dates. Pritzker on Wednesday pushed back against the lawsuits, telling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that he is confident the law will stand up in court because Illinois is the ninth state in the US to enact a so-called assault weapons ban. “The fact that there are – have been challenges of other states’ assault weapons bans.
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