BELLEVUE, Wash. — Sept. 8, 2025 — Attorneys representing the Second Modification Basis (SAF) have filed a movement for abstract judgment in its lawsuit difficult Illinois legislation that bans firearms in properties licensed to offer foster or day care.
The Foster House and Day Care House Guidelines and statutes in Illinois ban adults licensed to foster father or mother or present day care in their very own properties from conserving practical firearms for self-defense, even when they’re in any other case allowed to own them.
“Being a caretaker doesn’t come on the expense of your elementary rights,” stated SAF Director of Authorized Operations Invoice Sack. “The constitutional evaluation is not any completely different right here than for every other sort of gun management. The burden is on the state to show a historic custom of comparable regulation on the time of the Founding, and that custom merely doesn’t exist.”
SAF is joined within the case, Miller v. Mueller (previously Miller v. Smith) by the Illinois State Rifle Affiliation, Illinois Carry and two personal residents, Darin and Jennifer Miller.
“This case was initially filed in 2022 and it’s time for a decision,” stated SAF founder and Govt Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “The Bruen Supreme Court docket ruling shoots down the state’s arguments, however they proceed to spend taxpayer {dollars} preventing a case they know they’ll lose. It’s previous time to finish this case as soon as and for all.”
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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 the USA 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 way of public training initiatives, SAF teaches the significance of the Second Modification to advertise a society that values and workout routines the precise to maintain and bear arms.













