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

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

A federal judge in Illinois has ruled the state's blanket ban on assault weapons is unconstitutional and violates the Second ...

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

Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A federal judge in East St. Louis on Friday struck down ...

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

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

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

A federal judge overturned an Illinois assault weapons ban Friday, contending that the law enacted in response to the 2022 ...

The constitutionality of local bans on “assault weapons,” the phrase used in such laws, has been upheld by the 7th Circuit ...

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

U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn says the law bans firearms covered by the Second Amendment and is not supported by ...