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Illinois Supreme Court finds assault weapons ban constitutional

abcnews.go.com Illinois Supreme Court finds assault weapons ban constitutional

The Illinois Supreme Court found the state's assault weapons ban constitutional. It was passed after the Highland Park shooting last year.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3049053

The Illinois State Supreme Court found a strict assault weapons ban passed after the Highland Park shooting to be constitutional in a ruling issued Friday.

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Illinois Supreme Court finds assault weapons ban constitutional

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In the end, it doesn't really matter what any state court thinks, you know it's going to the Supremes.
- You mean SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States). This is also a Supreme Court, but of a single state.
- Yep and they will over turn it.

Various specific restrictions on firearms and accessories have been found constitutional. I know we’re in the Calvinball version of SCOTUS right now, but this particular finding is at least in line with historical findings.
- Their argument for this case was the the broad exceptions for police and jail guards violated the 14th:
  No State shall make or enforce any law which shall [...] deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
  
  Yeah, I’m just saying that arguing occupational differences being a class protected by the 14th is as bizarre an argument as I’ve heard, and I suspect it was done for the headlines. I’m shocked it was a close ruling, but then I was shocked by Roe being overturned.

bUt ThEn OnLy CrImInAls GeT gUNs
- Fun fact, the vast majority of guns used in the commission of a crime, were legally purchased. Not always by the person who used it in a crime, but often resold on the gray market to that person. There are wholesalers who buy guns in bulk (often in Georgia) and then resell those guns on the gray market.
  These gray market guns are often smuggled out of the country to arm drug cartels. It's a hell of a lot easier to get an American gun into Mexico, than it is to buy a gun legally in Mexico.
  
  Uhh no...straw purchases are illegal...
  
  Of course, straw purchasing is already a crime. See this link I got from the ATF's website regarding straw purchasing, https://www.dontlie.org/
  So is smuggling, of course.
  
  It's barely a 45 minute drive from Chicago to Indiana, just saying
  
  I don't understand why this is supposed to be some "gun laws don't work" own instead of an argument for more gun laws.

The unfortunate result of a corrupt court putting party politics over our rights and the constitution.

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