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The 2023 law was found unconstitutional last year by the
Southern District of Illinois federal court. Plaintiffs sued,
saying the government is prohibited from banning commonly owned
firearms. The state and gun control advocates argue the ban
addresses dangerous and unusual firearms and societal concerns
over mass shootings.
Attending the 2025 Zombie Shoot at Aurora Sportsman's Club in
Waterman, Paul Hunsicker of Lindinhurst said he hopes the law
gets struck down.
“Well, I hope it gets squashed like a bug,” Hunsicker told The
Center Square. “I'm tired of having my Second amendment rights
restricted. And, you know, I want to be able to exercise my
constitutional freedoms like everywhere else in the country.”
Hunsicker said from what he’s seen, not many people are
complying with the law.
“You talk to people about, you know, who registered items,
whether it's magazines or rifles or high capacity, you know,
pistol mags or anything like that, you probably come away with
about, zero,” he said.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker enacted the ban on more than 170
semi-automatic firearms and magazines over certain capacities.
Anibal Amezquita from Maywood also attended the recent Zombie
Shoot at Aurora Sportsman’s Club. He said the law doesn’t impact
criminals.
“Criminals are always going to be criminals,” Amezquita told The
Center Square. “Laws or not, they're going to do whatever they
want and, those who want to do the right thing the right way,
end up being held back from doing what we would like to do, to
doing what our Constitution should allow us to do.”
The U.S. Department of Justice under the Trump administration
plans to present five minutes of oral arguments on the side of
the plaintiffs and against the state’s law. The case will be
heard by the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Monday in
Chicago.
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