Illinois gun sellers were bracing Saturday for a surge in sales. This comes after a downstate judge temporarily halted the state's ban on so-called assault weapons and high capacity magazines.
One of the plaintiffs trying to end the ban says this is their first win. But he was cautiously optimistic, expecting the case to now head to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Many now expect the state attorney general will appeal that ruling with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. We do have an idea of what the circuit court might say because they looked at another injunction from a Naperville gun dealer earlier this month. A judge denied that request for an injunction, writing that the ban is constitutionally sound.
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