On May 1, 2023, Amy Coney, Supreme Court Justice, requested that the City of Naperville, Illinois provide an additional response to the city’s newly approved “assault weapons” prohibition.
The Second Amendment, which defends a person’s right to carry weapons, is allegedly violated by the state of Illinois and the city of Naperville, according to the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) and its legal division, the National Foundation for Gun Rights (NFGR).
On April 26, NAGR filed an emergency motion with the United States Supreme Court for an Injunction Pending Appellate Review. If the injunction is granted, Naperville gun owners will obtain immediate temporary reprieve. One notable gun owner who might benefit from this reprieve is gun store owner Robert Bevis, whose business has been badly harmed by both municipal and state “Assault Weapons” bans. Bevis is NAGR’s plaintiff, and he risks losing his business if he does not obtain a remedy soon.
The City of Naperville has until May 8 at noon EST to respond to Justice Barrett. The request demonstrates the Supreme Court’s desire to approve the request for relief.
“We are thankful that the Supreme Court is taking Illinoisans’ Second Amendment rights seriously,” said Dudley Brown, who is the President of the National Assc. for Gun Rights. “Any such ban on so-called ‘Assault Weapons’ is clearly unconstitutional, and it is now up to the city to explain their legal basis for the ban. Of course, there are none. The prohibitions were absurd from the beginning, and if Illinois possessed any sense, they would hoist the white flag now and spare us all some time.”
At this point, legal action represents one of the final options for gun owners in Illinois to safeguard their Second Amendment rights.
Through and through, Illinois is an anti-gun state. According to Guns & Ammo magazine’s list of the finest states for gun owners, Illinois is placed 39th, thereby making it an anti-gun safe haven. Because Democrats control the state government, the chances of pro-gun reform legislation passing are extremely low. Gun owners will instead have to resort to legal action to safeguard their rights against an increasingly hostile Illinois state government.
Author: Blake Ambrose
With the governor legislation of Illinois take responsibility for a murder of a person that was killed by breaking into their home ? Shot by criminal with GUN THEY STOLEN IN ANOTHER ARM ROBBING! If these far left communist supporters REFUSED TO TAKE THE BLAME. THEN THEY NEED TO LEAVE THE SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS ALONG! It their LIES that lead to a home owner getting shot during a robbery! So, who has BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS? They can dig into their own bank account pay the family 10 million dollars! Or they can start following the CONSTITUTION LAWS! NO! IT DOESN’T GIVE GOVERNOR RIGHTS TO TAKE OUR FIRE ARMS! IT GIVE THE PEOPLE THE RIGHTS TO STOP A TYRANNY PRESIDENT AND GOVERNOR! All you anti- guns supporters need to get OFF THE DRUGS!
You voted them in……vote them the hell out….
Amen!
As I’ve said many times an AR is not an assault weapon. It works just like a 22 rifle.
GOVERNMENT DOESN’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT ANYONE EXCEPT THEMSELVES!!! FJB!
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I feel Illinois is a lost cause for any conservative values based on the voters in the Chicago area. Witness the new mayor and the last one fondly known as “Beetlejuice!” Due to the number of blind liberal voters in Chicago the state will suffer in total; if any families needed a firearm for home protection these do. I now suggest the supreme court turn their attention to the state of Washington and the recent ill conceived gun law sponsered by socialist governor Jay Inslee. I am surprised this edict did not receive an instant court challenge as it certainly needs one. Please any of you justices who read this please consider taking action.
“The right of self defense is the first law of nature. In most governments, it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Whenever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty , if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.” – Henry St. George Tucker, Blackstone’s 1789 Commentaries on the Laws of England