BELLEVUE, Wash. — June 9, 2025 — The Second Modification Basis (SAF) and its companions have filed their transient with the Seventh Circuit Courtroom of Appeals in SAF’s problem to Illinois’ assault weapons and journal capability bans.
SAF is joined in Harrel v. Raoul by the Illinois State Rifle Affiliation, Firearms Coverage Coalition, C4 Gun Retailer, Marengo Weapons and Dane Harrel, for whom the lawsuit is called.
The case challenges the constitutionality of the Illinois assault weapons and journal capability bans, on the grounds that each fashionable semiautomatic rifles, and the usual capability magazines that feed them, are overwhelmingly in frequent use for lawful functions, together with self-defense. Twice now, the District Courtroom has agreed and dominated in SAF’s favor, first in granting a preliminary injunction, after which on the deserves on remand. With a full trial document now earlier than it, the Seventh Circuit has a second alternative to correctly apply the Heller/Bruen check and go away these Illinois statutes within the wastebin of historical past.
“SAF is litigating seven circumstances across the nation in opposition to so-called assault weapons bans,” mentioned SAF Government Director Adam Kraut. “We’re difficult the Illinois ban, and others prefer it, as they fly within the face of the Second Modification and the Supreme Courtroom’s interpretations in each Heller and Bruen. The fashionable semiautomatic rifles banned in Illinois are among the many mostly owned firearms within the nation, inserting them nicely throughout the safety of the Second Modification.”
“Illinois legislators might disagree with the Structure and the Supreme Courtroom, however they don’t get to thumb their nostril at each and ban broad classes of common arms,” mentioned SAF founder and Government Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “The Second Modification calls for the safety of all semiautomatic rifles just like the AR-15 and people like them. Arduous cease.”
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The Second Modification Basis (saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt training, analysis, publishing and authorized motion group devoted to safeguarding and selling the basic rights of people enshrined within the Second Modification of america Structure. SAF engages in aggressive authorized motion to make sure the ideas of armed self-defense, private liberty, and the possession of arms are defended, secured, and restored. By public training initiatives, SAF teaches the significance of the Second Modification to advertise a society that values and workouts the proper to maintain and bear arms.
