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Wednesday, December 09, 2020

Deerfield Assault Weapons Ban Upheld By Divided Appeals Court

ELGIN, IL — Deerfield could soon begin enforcing its ban on certain semi-automatic long guns following an opinion released last week by a state appeals court. 

A divided three-judge panel of the Illinois 2nd District Appeals Court Friday lifted permanent injunctions issued last year by a Lake County judge, which had forbidden village officials from enforcing any part of the Assault Weapons Ban Ordinance trustees passed unanimously in April 2018. 
-Brad_in_IL

10 comments:

  1. It won't stand. This will head up to SCOTUS and be overturned in a 5-4 vote. Until then the people of Illinois need to demand Chitcago election reform.

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  2. Warning folks: You want to know who your “real” friends are? Wait till Biden and his commie pals manage to push through a ban or a uber-high tax on most guns and magazines.

    Think you can just “hunker down” and avoid confiscation?

    Bingo: they’ll announce a $500 bounty to anyone who “reports” knowing where any of these “illegal” firearms are located or the name and address of people they know have them.

    Then it’ll be Assholes and elbows headed to the phone time baby!

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    1. "Wait till Biden and his commie pals manage to push through a ban or a uber-high tax on most guns and magazines."

      You forgot the $2.50/round ammunition tax. Bullets will make cigarettes look downright cheap.

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  3. The writer of the article seems to confuse magazine capacity with ammunition caliber. The town may not regulate handguns, but since some handguns have magazine capacity more than 10 rounds, the town may not regulate handgun ammunition. ??

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    1. It’s a messy intersection of state and local law. There is no established case law that I know of where these waters have been tested and as long as this ban is being actively contested it’s unlikely that there will be.

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    2. When the writer mentioned "magazines holding more than 10 bullets", I decided they didn't know what the fuck they were talking about.

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  4. After you kill the first tyrant the rest are free.

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  5. What part of 'Shall not be infringed' do these fucknuts not fucking understand?

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    1. @Beans - they understand plenty. They, Mayor Harriet Rosenthal and her ilk simply don't care. Think Beto O'Rourke but at the local level.
      As a former resident of Deerfield, I bought a particular rifle that would scare the pee out of the Progressive Intelligencia, but does not violate any of their restrictions. Furthermore, state level preemption should invalidate a local magazine ban, but that too will need to be tested in the courts.

      What can one do? Give to the IL State Rifle Association (ISRA.ORG) or Second Amendment Foundation (SAF.ORG) and help financially fight this turd.

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