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SCOTUS Could Use Bump Stock Case to Derail Illinois Semi-Auto Ban

By RVL / June 17, 2024
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SCOTUS Could Use Bump Stock Case to Derail Illinois Semi-Auto Ban

By Cam Edwards | 12:30 PM | June 16, 2024
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Tomorrow morning the Supreme Court will release orders from last Thursday’s conference, and there’s a distinct possibility that the Court’s decision tossing out the ATF’s ban on bump stocks will play a role in the future of one of those cases debated in conference.

For several weeks now the Court has held on to a cert request filed in a half-dozen challenges to the Protect Illinois Communities Act, which banned hundreds of models of semi-automatic rifles, shotguns, and handguns by labeling them “assault weapons”. A U.S. District Judge granted an injunction against the ban, but his decision was overturned by a three-judge panel on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which concluded that the law is likely to pass constitutional muster because the guns that are banned are “like” machine guns and are therefore beyond the scope of the Second Amendment.

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