U.S. Federal Court Judge Stephen McGlynn struck down Illinois’ so-called “Protect Illinois Communities Act” gun and magazine ban Friday afternoon. The court ruled that banning America’s favorite rifle, the AR-15, and a myriad of other hot-selling guns commonly used for self-defense is unconstitutional. The ruling proved a very satisfying cap to a week that saw Donald Trump’s election and all that entails for rolling back gun control schemes nationwide.
Erring on the side of caution, Judge McGlynn stayed his permanent injunction for 30 days to allow the State of Illinois to reach out to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals for an appeal. The Land of Lincoln’s Attorney General will no doubt seek an extended stay to drag out an appeal to delay the inevitable.
Typically through a federal appellate court procedure known as “judicial economy,” cases returning to the appellate courts are usually assigned to the same three-judge panel that heard earlier arguments. However, given the retirement of one of the two judges who ruled against the lawsuits challenging the law last fall, a third judge will be assigned to the two remaining judges.
Here are the documents released today.
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law (2309753.1)
Memo & Order re Mtn to Preclude Plaintiffs’ Experts & Evidence (2309752.1)
Judgment (2309755.1)
Given the overall makeup of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, there’s about a 50/50 chance a random assignment will be a judge that respects the rule of law and Supreme Court precedent. If that happens, getting a stay while the case is heard on appeal is far from a guarantee. And if that new judge decides in favor of upholding the Constitution and the rule of law, then Governor J.B. Pritzker’s beloved gun ban may well officially join the dustbin of history.
At that point, we will likely witness a rapture of sorts as hundreds of thousands of PICA-regulated firearms will suddenly wash up on the shores of Illinois lakes, streams and rivers. Owners can then reclaim their guns and take them home following their tragic loss in that rash of boating accidents in late 2023. This is especially true as roughly 98% of Illinois gun owners said “no thanks” to registering their regulated guns, ammo and accessories by January 1, 2024.
I dont think states have to do what a federal judge says.
I hope it’s true and the Illinoisites can have the same rights as the Free States.
I believe it will be how the supremacy clause is interpreted. We shall see. NOW, my wish is for a National Reciprocity ruling.
You need to think bigger. There’s already talk about disbanding the ATF. National Recip is very small potatoes.
Actually; the issue is if the Second Amendment is incorporated into the Fourteenth Amendment. If so, then the Second Amendment is binding upon not just the Federal government but the Several States and individuals. This would include corporations. We’ve witnessed prosecutions and lawsuits for violations of civil rights. Perhaps now gun owners can start filing lawsuits against States, corporations and individuals who attempt to infringe upon on our rights.
BTW, the magazine capacity of that Barett .50 BMG is only a politically correct ten rounds .
A fact that is hilarious in NY where not only is 50bmg still legal but so are destructive devices so long as the ammo isn’t AP or explosive. Not that I know anyone who has a collection involving 20, 25, and/or 30mm autocannons. Truly amazing what one can learn (and later confirm) from various conversations.
“Not that I know anyone who has a collection involving 20, 25, and/or 30mm autocannons.”
Ten, or so, years ago, the Barret website included 20 and 25mm rifles for sale. And also advertised was a course in field use of all the rifles (sniper training). Three years ago, I looked at the website, and only the 50bmg rifles were offered, and no field training.
Of note, there are 30mm rifles produced for sale from a coupla European countries. Too heavy for the old man, now.
In Illinois the .50 BMG round is also one of the banned items under PICA.
Still is. Judge McGlynn said it was okay to ban the .50’s.
Skip the corporations part and nongovernmental individuals. Only government entities and government employees are bound to respect the Constitutional guarantees, so you have no right to second amendment protections on the corporation’s property. Further, all states and state level employees are immune from liability under the Civil Rights Act. Eleventh Amendment as I recall. Local entities (counties, cities, and their employees) are not immune. But States are not immune from civil rights actions under state law.
“…the issue is [whether] the Second Amendment is incorporated into the Fourteenth Amendment.”
This was settled by McDonald 2 years after Heller.
Finally got a chance to celebrate the Trump victory after a downright exhausting week between attending one of the PA rallies and all kinds of interesting stuff at work. Then I log on and see this for very welcome news just before veterans day. If I hadn’t already popped a cork from the Trump winery would certainly be doing so now so I will leave it at congratulations to the next step towards freedom for the land of Lincoln and we will race you to the finish.
Safe,
Glad you were able to make it to a Trump rally here in PA!!
It is funny, I have been to 6 Trump rallies. But when Trump held one here, in Allentown, PA, two miles from my home, I could not go due to customer presentations which I had ti lead.
I checked hotel prices for anywhere near the inauguration. Crystal City MARRIOTT was $3,700 per night. The less classy and further out hotels were already jacked to around $350 to $500 per night. Oh well….the TV will have to do.
Basking in the landslide!
That was the very one we went to and it was entertaining, and got to see the Japanese choir that was at the Freedom fest at the PA Tommy Gun warehouse again. We considered Madison Square Garden but schedules and various other concerns did not align. I am just happy to see PA going in a better direction again even if NY wasn’t able to shake off what we have going on despite getting closer than we have seen in decades. Maybe after a few years of mass deportations. With that said yeah hotel prices were insane so it was a long weekend of driving and running off of Bang and Sheetz coffee.
Compare presidential voting patterns in deep blue California, Illinois, and New York. Identify the trend.
CA 2016 62% to 32%
CA 2020 63% to 34%
CA 2024 58% to 39% 7 point gain!
IL 2016 55% to 38%
IL 2020 57% to 41%
IL 2024 54% to 45% 7 point gain!
NY 2016 59% to 37%
NY 2020 61% to 38%
NY 2024 56% to 44% 7 point gain!
Fewer Ghost Ballots in 2024…….
It’s a 7 point gain from 2016, not 2020. Disregard the 2020 outlier, and look at it again. As a matter of fact, the only noteworthy part of 2020, as listed above, is that there was still a gain from 2016, even though 2020 was a “loss.” That’s an eight year trend.
Ain’t NOTHING happening yet! No freedom week,no rights, no nothing! SCOTUS needs to decide. EFF ILLANNOY!!!
Likely will not be as they want to move to the appeals with a minimum of delay. Sucks but I know what it’s like.
Patience Grasshopper.
waterhead…If I were you and thankfully I am not I would be blunt and ask each IL legislator to remove the figuratively speaking Gun Control noose and swastika from the doors of the IL State Capitiol Building.
I would advise the legistators to find honorable means to combat crime without turning to Gun Control an agenda History Confirms is Rooted in Racism and Genocide. Gun Control in any shape, matter or form especially in the Land of Lincoln is an abomination therefore Gun Control must be abolished like its sidekick Slavery.
Conclude with…Before catering to Gun Control please lay the diabolical History of Gun Control on the table for the legislators and public to see…Kindest regards, waterhead.
Now go get your forum pals and ask them what advice they would give to deal with your oppressors.
Well that’s one way to accomplish absolutely nothing besides a possible psych hold.
I don’t need “advice” from a troll🙄
Big nothing-burger. Dead on appeal. 7th Circuit will steal it from the 3 judge appeals court and schedule it for an en banc trial in a year or two or three.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, All Coming From Illinois.
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A federal district court judge declared an Illinois gun ban as unconstitutional. Mark Smith, Four Boxes Diner, discusses…
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Federal judge blocks Illinois “assault weapons” ban.
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The reporting out of Washington DC is that the Democrats are planning to push Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayer out the door and replace her with a younger liberal. Mark Smith, Four Boxes Diner, discusses.
(note: some other news outlets are reporting that Dems want Joe to appoint election-butt-stomped looser Cackles Kamala the marx-ist socia -list clown to SCOTUS to replace Sotomayer.)
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BREAKING: Democrats Rushing Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor’s Retirement?!
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Delusion Democrat Says Biden Should Appoint Harris to Supreme Court.
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Kamala is not qualified to be a Supreme Court justice by intellect or experience. All the Republicans have to do is delay confirmation until the next Congress is seated, and then any nomination is dead. Two months and nine days and she can be assigned to the dustbin of history.
Yep. Definately not qualified by intellect or experience OR mental health stability.
The establishment usually award$ Democrats for their service. It will be interesting to see what she gets, if anything.
Wasted a BILLION on Kamaltoe!!! Slow Joe would have out polled her & Tampon Timmy😧🙄
Mark N.,
I don’t think there is any mechanism/procedure through which Republicans can delay confirming a U.S. Supreme Court appointment. Last I heard, U.S. Senate rules only require 51 votes to confirm judicial appointments and Democrats have at least 50 votes in the U.S. Senate–with Kamala Harris available for vote number 51 if needed in the event of a tie vote.
Related to the above, if “Dork from New York” (a.k.a. Chucky Shumer) is still the U.S. Senate Majority Leader, he sets the agenda and can move a judicial confirmation to their first order of business.
If the above is accurate and Democrats really want to replace Sotomayor, they can most certainly do it before December 31st. The only question worth asking is whether or not Sotomayor will cave-in to pressure from Democrat Party leaders.
WSJ reports Sotomajor doesn’t want to resign. Also doesn’t Dem majority include Manchin and Sinema? They might not go for it.
Force out the “wise latina” horrendous, shocking. How could there?
BREAKING: Trump Drops A Bombshell Announcing (plan on) Term Limits & DESTROYING The Deep-State.
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Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle the Deep State. (note: it goes further than this it turns out, these are just some points).
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Not going to happen. This would require a constitutional amendment, just as limiting the President to two terms.
well term limits, maybe not. Most of the rest can be done.
“Trump Drops A Bombshell Announcing (plan on) Term Limits & DESTROYING The Deep-State.”
Utterly amazing how many people think setting term limits on Reps and Senators (and others) will result in complete reversal of politics.
It isn’t the politician that matters, but the people who vote them into office. Remove an elected official based on a timer, and the people who voted that individual into office will simply vote a clone into the position.
Just look at the results of already having term limits incorporated into the Constitution. “W” was term limited out, and the result was Obama. Obama was term limited out, and we got Trump for a season, then Obama was elected again.
Morning Joe Breaks Rank: “Democrats Can’t Just Say Orange Man Bad Anymore”… Rats Are Jumping Ship.
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The cries of “racism and sexism” are far louder than the whispers of rational discussion. Plenty of Democrat pundits have been saying the party needs to lay off the culture war nonsense and stop blowing celebrities but they’ve been ignored.
This poor, frustrated woman on CNN yesterday was pleading with a table full of far-left psychos for sanity. To focus on the economy, immigration, to accept that most people don’t want mentally ill men stealing opportunities from their daughters, that most people don’t want to throw away billions of dollars on foreign wars when they can’t pay their own bills at home.
That table beat her down immediately. Cut her off mid sentence and shouted about “racism and sexism.”
If they keep their heads up their asses like this for the next four years President Vance will be guaranteed with even more Democrat defection.
Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, voters are tired of the fear mongering the democrat politicians use to ‘control’, they are tired of the culture war non-sense and the identity politics, they are tired of seeing the democrat politicians tear the country and economy apart then being lied to about it.
Lots of (usually) democrat voters … voted for Trump, some of them may have voted on split ticket for some democrat backed ‘something’, but for president they voted for Trump and not Harris. There were various reasons they did this, but overall collectively they saw what Biden-Harris did to the country and constitution – and these wanted it and all the other crap from them to end and wanted their country and constitution back.
Dave Portnoy tears into Democrats in reaction to Trump’s victory: They ‘gave us no choice’.
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A Tale of Two Cities 2024. While the dem pundits are crying in their coffee cups on national MSM and trying to explain how things went so awfully wrong, well over half of Mainstreet America are popping champagne, or more likely good craft beers, and high-fiving each other and celebrating what went Right.
How’s your salty coffee, Miner??
The democrat party is in shambles and imploding internally, and they are leaking more than the Titanic did when it went down. They simply can not believe it. Then a lot of them are also questioning the money and some pointed out the rich elites the democrat party catered to with promises to do this or that for them in a Harris administration… she raised over $1 billion for her campaign, and at the end was $20 million in the hole.
(delusional) Harris Staffers Furious Over Post-Election Pep Talk: ‘Detached From Reality’.
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DNC official calls Harris campaign a ‘$1 billion disaster’
“Democratic National Committee (DNC) official Lindy Li called Vice President Harris’s bid for the White House a ‘$1 billion disaster’ following her loss to President-elect Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
‘The truth is this is just an end epic disaster, this is a $1 billion disaster,’ Li, a DNC National Finance Committee member, said during her Saturday morning appearance on ‘Fox & Friends Weekend.’
‘They’re $20 million or $18 million in debt. It’s incredible, and I raised millions of that. I have friends I have to be accountable to and explain what happened because I told them it was a margin-of-error race,’ she added. … ”
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“Lots of (usually) democrat voters … voted for Trump,”
Doesn’t seem to jibe with Trump getting the same number of votes both times. Just saying.
same number of votes does not mean same demographic make-up both times.
@Shire-man The same happened on The View talk show. One of them said that people are concerned about illegal immigration. Whoopie cut her off and began shouting. The people always saying “we need to have a conversation” aren’t interested in any amount of reflection or understanding. They only want their ideological opponents punished. They live for that.
“If they keep their heads up their asses like this for the next four years President Vance will be guaranteed…”
See my above comment about voting trends.
Shire-man,
If Republicans:
— improve the economy
— increase incomes
— reduce prices
— increase jobs and businesses
— reduce interest rates
— increase stock market (e.g. 401k plans)
— secure the border
— increase domestic energy production
— end electric vehicle mandates
— end electric stove mandates
— ban adolescent and adult males in female sports
(note that all of the above are EASILY achievable)
— AND —
Republican leadership positions Vance favorably …
— AND —
Vance avoids being bombastic like Trump …
He will be an absolute shoo-in for President in 2028 with an even greater landslide victory than Trump put in the books.
and… the election butt stomping continues, and not only crushing the political soul of the democrat party but grinding it to dust … as even more electoral college votes come in… presently (Nevada called for Trump with 6 electoral votes and goes red)…
Trump = 301
Harris = 226
(note on above: The AP called it… declared Trump the winner in Nevada after discovering there were not enough uncounted ballots in the state’s strongest Democratic areas to overcome Trumps lead of 46,000-votes over Harris with 96% of votes counted)
I’m more excited about the popular vote. It removes the excuse they were desperately clinging to after 2016. “But we won the popular vote! We’ll always win the popular vote! Most of the country agrees with us! Get rid of the Electoral College!”
popular votes, presently, overall:
Trump = 74,264,589 votes (51.0%)
Harris = 70,357,568 votes (48.0%)
2024 vote count:
Trump = 74,264,589 votes (51.0%)
Harris = 70,357,568 votes (48.0%)
Total = 144,622,157
2020 vote count:
Trump = 74,223,975
Biden = 81,238,501
Total = 155,472,476
Where did 10,850,319 votes go?
And how is it Trump collected such almost identical in numbers of votes in both elections?
Something is rotten in Denmark.
BBC is explaining this as a result of higher turnout in 2020 than 2024. Millions turned out for Biden in 2020, but stayed home in ’24. And the same folks voted for Trump both times. And the extra ’20 turnout was fortuitously distributed throughout the various states to exactly, blah, blah, blah…
Anything else is just a myth and perverted tin foil thought and a threat to democracy.
Will somebody please get Rudy some food stamps?
“BBC is explaining this…”
Leftist org explaining leftist losers. My contention about Denmark stands.
Or maybe Netherlands, or Down Under. If you get my drift…
Ok looter.
“Where did 10,850,319 votes go?”
People had to show up in 2020 as a referendum on racist Trump. The Summer of St. George Floyd really helped to motivate people.
They didn’t show up in 2024 because a black woman was on the ticket, and people are racist. It makes total sense. If you squint really hard…from really far away.
Record turnouts in ’24 in my area. Not so much in ’20.
Walz called. He’s angry you spit instead of swallowed.
for those that keep up with actual crime rate trends nationwide … which the media rarely reports unless there is something sensational or political about it …. for criminal knife attacks upon innocent victims that happen thousands of times daily across the U.S. – one did make the news…
10 stabbed in Seattle over two days in random attacks that may be connected. > h ttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/10-stabbed-in-seattle-over-two-days-in-random-attacks-that-may-be-connected/ar-AA1tLRpB
Gun Control Groups Bracing for Trump Moves to Roll Back the Biden-Harris War on the Second Amendment.
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Federal Judge Explains Heller and Bruen for the State of Illinois’ Legally Illiterate Legislators.
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I got to thinking about that millions of guns washing up on lake shores and rivers stuff.
Yah know it ain’t right when a person has to hide his firearms from His government in America.
Its almost as if the Second Amendment isn’t a constitutional right.
I do not know how we the people can change this.
Oh well, I guess it’s not as bad as living in North Korea. But that’s like saying standing knee deep in shit is better then having it tit deep.
Crap is crap.
“But that’s like saying standing knee deep in shit is better then having it tit deep.
Crap is crap.”
Leftists think they’re in hell and the coffee break just ended (cold coffee, they thought of everything), and now it’s back to standing on their heads.
Of course, this is a hell of their own making.
“BREAKING: Illinois Gun & Magazine Ban Struck Down by Federal Judge”
And the band played on.
Good. I look forward to more Heritage Foundation/Trump picks for the courts.