A group of nearly three dozen Illinois county state’s attorneys have joined their names to the effort to strike down Illinois’ ban on so-called “assault weapons.”
On June 13, Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Haine submitted a brief to the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, co-signed by 34 of his colleagues from most regions of Illinois, with the exception of the Chicago area, urging the federal appeals judges to uphold the decision of U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn, which declared Illinois’ gun ban law unconstitutional.
“State’s attorneys have a duty to ensure that the laws we enforce are constitutional,” Haine said in a prepared statement issued in a release announcing the filing of the legal brief. “But this patently unconstitutional law – which purports to ban a type of firearm far more common than the Ford F-150 while accounting for only a tiny portion of violent crime in our state and nation – threatens the basic constitutional rights of the law-abiding citizens we are sworn to protect.
“Therefore, I am happy to partner with so many other Illinois State’s Attorneys in asking the Seventh Circuit to affirm Judge McGlynn’s excellent opinion, throw out this law, and protect our basic right of effective self-defense of hearth and home in Illinois and the rest of America.”
Haine is joined in the brief by the state’s attorneys for the counties of Brown, Calhoun, Carroll, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland, Edwards, Effingham, Gallatin, Hancock, Henry, Iroquois, Jasper, Jefferson, Jersey, Jo Daviess, Johnson, Livingston, Marion, Mercer, Monroe, Ogle, Perry, Pulaski, Schuyler, Scott, Union, Vermilion, Warren, Washington, White and Woodford.
The brief in support of those challenging the Illinois “assault weapons” ban comes on the heels of a brief filed in the matter by the U.S. Justice Department, declaring that the U.S. government also believes Illinois’ law violates Illinoisans’ Second Amendment rights.
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Author: Faith Novak
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