Posted December 05, 2024 6:53 pm
The federal appeals court in Chicago put a hold Thursday on a downstate judge’s recent ruling against Illinois’ controversial assault weapons ban— meaning the law will remain in place while the legal controversy it’s generated continues to work its way through the courts.
The order from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is no surprise. Nor was the Nov. 8 ruling from U.S. District Judge Stephen P. McGlynn, who found the assault weapons ban unconstitutional.
This is the second time McGlynn moved to block the ban, only to be undone by the appellate court.
The result is that Illinois can continue to enforce the ban while lawyers take their arguments to the 7th Circuit, based in Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Courthouse.
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