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Wednesday, Justice Amy Coney Barrett turned down a request from
Republican state Rep. Dan Caulkins, of Decatur, and other gun
rights advocates who lost their challenge to the law earlier
this year at the Illinois Supreme Court.
And on Thursday, the full court issued an unsigned order denying
a similar request for an injunction by the National Association
for Gun Rights, one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging
both the statewide ban and a local ban in the city of
Naperville.
NAGR filed its request Nov. 29 while it was waiting for the 7th
Circuit Court of Appeals to decide whether it would reconsider
its earlier decision upholding the law as constitutional. But
the 7th Circuit said Monday it would not reconsider that
decision.
Because of that, NAGR said this week it is now preparing to ask
the Supreme Court for a full review of the law.
Speaking to reporters in Springfield at an unrelated event
Thursday, Gov. JB Pritzker, who signed the law back in January,
said he still believes it is constitutional.
“I still believe that – as everybody that voted on the law and
voted for it – that this is not only a legal undertaking and an
appropriate undertaking to keep and safeguard the people of the
state of Illinois, but a constitutional one too,” he said.
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