The decision comes as a federal appeals court in the state last month upheld the assault weapon ban — which was passed last ...

U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn is holding off on enforcing his ruling for 30 days to allow Illinois leaders time to ...

The Illinois ban on assault weapons has lost a major court battle. A judge for the U.S. District Court Southern District of ...

Officials in the state have already filed an appeal after the Trump-appointed judge’s ruling, which cites recent Supreme ...

In this August 2012 photo, three variations of the AR-15 assault rifle are displayed at the California Department of Justice ...

The ban was signed into law in January 2023 and prohibited the sale or transfer of assault rifles and high-capacity magazines ...

Government may not deprive law-abiding citizens of their guaranteed right to self-defense as a means of offense,” the judge ...

The case went before the appellate court only four days after a conservative federal judge declared Illinois' statewide ...

A federal judge in southern Illinois ruled on Friday that Illinois' "assault weapons" and high-capacity magazine bans violate ...

A panel of federal judges is weighing whether to overturn a Cook County ban on semiautomatic weapons in a case that could ...

A federal judge on Friday overturned Illinois’ ban on assault weapons, leaning on recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that ...