Illinois Policy

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Wednesday that Illinois can, for now, keep in place a new law that bars the sale of certain semiautomatic guns and large-capacity magazines. The high court denied an emergency request from people challenging the law, which bans so-called assault weapons. The law’s opponents had asked the court to [...]

In a powerfully written decision, Judge Stephen P. McGlynn of the Southern District of Illinois said Illinois’ new assault weapon ban known as the Protect Illinois Communities Act, or PICA, is likely to be found unconstitutional when the case goes to trial, and the plaintiffs in the consolidated cases will suffer harm without a preliminary [...]

A 20-year veteran Chicago prosecutor quit his job and wrote a blistering letter to his colleagues on his way out Friday, blasting the city's "stupid" leaders and declaring they set the city "on a course to disaster" Read more...

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett requested a further response from the City of Naperville, IL for their recently passed “Assault Weapons” Ban. The National Association for Gun Rights, in conjunction with the National Foundation for Gun Rights, says the cities law conflicts with the Supreme Court’s decision last year in the NYSRPA v. Bruen case, [...]

A veteran Chicago prosecutor has left his job after 20 years but not before filing a letter decrying the state of the city’s “stupid” leaders and predicting it is “on a course to disaster” under their woke leadership. Fox News reports felony trial attorney Jason Poje handed in his two weeks’ notice at the end of [...]