EAST ST. LOUIS — An engineer who spent decades designing weapons for one of the world’s leading gun manufacturers testified Tuesday that the assault-style weapons now banned in Illinois are ...
(AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File) EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (CN) — Gun owners and advocates challenged Illinois' ban on assault weapons and extended ammunition magazines in a federal bench trial which began ...
Illinois enacted a ban on semi-automatic firearms and magazines over certain capacities in January 2023. Lawsuits challenging the law in federal court went all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court ...