The case went before the appellate court only four days after a conservative federal judge declared Illinois' statewide ...

Officials in the state have already filed an appeal after the Trump-appointed judge’s ruling, which cites recent Supreme ...

The decision comes as a federal appeals court in the state last month upheld the assault weapon ban — which was passed last ...

U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn is holding off on enforcing his ruling for 30 days to allow Illinois leaders time to ...

The ban was signed into law in January 2023 and prohibited the sale or transfer of assault rifles and high-capacity magazines ...

A federal judge overturned Illinois‘s ban on semiautomatic weapons on Friday, but Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) has promised to ...

U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn says the law bans firearms covered by the Second Amendment and is not supported by ...

Viramontes’ lawyers argued in court documents that the Second Amendment protected his right to own a semiautomatic rifle and ...

The ruling increases the likelihood that the conservative-majority Supreme Court will one day consider whether the Second ...

In this August 2012 photo, three variations of the AR-15 assault rifle are displayed at the California Department of Justice ...

The Illinois ban on assault weapons has lost a major court battle. A judge for the U.S. District Court Southern District of ...

Government may not deprive law-abiding citizens of their guaranteed right to self-defense as a means of offense,” the judge ...