Illinois "Assault Weapon" Ban (TRO Upheld) Oral args (Barnett) 4-12-23

[TrappedinCalifornia]

Update Post #83 - After an appeal from Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Illinois' Fifth District appellate court ruled on Tuesday in a 2-to-1 decision that the temporary restraining order can stay in place, and also extends it statewide. (Thanks Fyathyrio.)

Update Post #68 - TRO Issued 1/20/23 - Impacts limited number, Preliminary hearing scheduled for 1 February.

Update from Post #35 forward, w/ Post #37 linking to an article containing quite a few details - Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed an assault weapons ban into law Tuesday night, hours after the Illinois House passed it in Springfield.

Update in Post #27 -

Update in Post #18 - "Assault Weapon" ban passed in State House. Legislation moving to Illinois Senate

Semi-auto gun ban only part of solution, Illinois House told

proposed legislation

According to the linked, proposed legislation...

Synopsis As Introduced

Amends the Illinois State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Division of Criminal Investigation of the Illinois State Police shall conduct other investigations as provided by law, including, but not limited to, investigations of human trafficking, illegal drug trafficking, and illegal firearms trafficking. Provides that the Division of Criminal Investigation shall provide statewide coordination and strategy pertaining to firearm-related intelligence, firearms trafficking interdiction, and investigations. Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Eliminates provisions that permit a person under 21 years of age who is not an active duty member of the United States Armed Forces or the Illinois National Guard to obtain a Firearm Owner's Identification Card with parental consent. Amends the Wildlife Code. Provides that when a person under 21 years of age is hunting under the supervision of a adult, the adult must possess a Firearm Owners Identification Card. Amends the Firearms Restraining Order Act. Provides that the State's Attorney of the county where the petition is filed may act as a friend of the court in any action filed under the Act. Provides that a petitioner may request a one-year (rather than 6-month) firearms restraining order. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes it unlawful to manufacture, deliver, sell, or purchase or cause to be manufactured, delivered, sold, or purchased or cause to be possessed by another, an assault weapon, assault weapon attachment, .50 caliber rifle, or .50 caliber cartridge. Makes it unlawful for any person to knowingly possess an assault weapon, .50 caliber rifle, or .50 caliber cartridge 300 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act, except possession of weapons registered with the Illinois State Police in the time provided. Provides exemptions and penalties. Prohibits the manufacture, delivery, sale, purchase, or possession of large capacity ammunition feeding devices. Defines terms. Provides exemptions and penalties. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.

[Dan_Eastvale]

They should look at the current status of Oregon’s 114 before they proceed
Might think twice

[Fyathyrio]

Doesn't matter, the strife and discord makes their virtue signalling all the more virtuous and even easier for all the affluent white women to assuage their white guilt with anti-gun yard signs and wine spritzers.

[gunuser17]

Democrats have a super majority in both houses and the Governor. The democrats, except possibly for a very few downstate rural dems,, don't care whether any law they pass is constitutional. They just want to say that they voted for the laws for the next election cycle and that they are doing everything they can to attack violence - except actually capture and incarcerate the offenders.

[TrappedinCalifornia]

This was posted today. While it is, ostensibly, by a different author, it does include some of the same language as the OP article. What's interesting is that supporters aren't even waiting. Instead, they are claiming it doesn't go far enough even now.

Supporters of assault weapons ban in Illinois tell lawmakers bill doesn't go far enough

...The changes promised in the proposal -- House Bill 5855 -- will fall short, Saunders said. "If this bill will pass, no more assault weapons, things will be still happening on the streets," he said. "They (illegal weapons) are out here in a major way."

Saunders and other proponents said the bill introduced by state Rep. Bob Morgan, D-Deerfield, earlier this month is long overdue but more steps are needed to address gun violence in the state. Gun rights advocates, however, called out the proposal for infringing on constitutional rights...

HB 5855 lists more than 100 semiautomatic firearms and assault-style weapons such as the AR15, yet some advocates say that list is incomplete. Others such as Dr. Karen Sheehan, a pediatric physician at Lurie Children's Hospital, said more needs to be done to keep firearms out of the hands who may be a risk to themselves or others.

The state's Firearm Restraining Order allows family members and law enforcement to withhold weapons from those "in crisis," she said, but does not allow licensed health care providers to do so. HB 5855 expands the temporary restraining order to 12 months, up from six, and creates the Commission on Implementing the Firearms Restraining Order Act...

I believe this is the current version, all 69 pages, of HB 5855.

What is it that we keep warning about? Oh, yeah.

It will never be enough for the anti-Constitution forces.

[Jimi Jah]

Just another state to avoid.

[Subotai]

And Illinois creates with a signature, hundreds of thousands of lost, missing, ghost, etc. guns. It's like magic! All those guns missing!

[TrappedinCalifornia]

Illinois law enforcement officials push for ban on high-power, high-capacity weapons

[TrappedinCalifornia]

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Illinois law enforcement officials push for ban on high-power, high-capacity weapons

[sfpcservice]

I hate Illinois Nazis....

[GetMeCoffee]

I hate Illinois Nazis....

The German ones are still the wurst.

[TrappedinCalifornia]

I hate Illinois Nazis....

Just keeping it safe for work.

[Bhobbs]

SCOTUS not taking Bianchi and Duncan set the country back for years. Eventually, this all MAY be undone but they should have stopped it now.

[lastinline]

SCOTUS not taking Bianchi and Duncan set the country back for years. Eventually, this all MAY be undone but they should have stopped it now.

And not using the opportunity in Bruen to do away with permission slips entirely has really been a key screw-up. Thomas failed highly with that one. Oh well, now we have a SCOTUS opinion that can be extrapolated to allow government to require a permit for the exercise of any constitutional right. Words matter, and we have been smeared with dog crap.