NSSF Files to Block Enforcement of Illinois Gun & Magazine Ban

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The NSSF filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to block state authorities from enforcing HB 5471, the recently-enacted “Protect Illinois Communities Act”. IMG iStock-884198022

U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- NSSF, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to block state authorities from enforcing HB 5471, the recently-enacted “Protect Illinois Communities Act,” which bans the sale of several hundred of the most commonly-owned semiautomatic rifles in America, including all rifles on the very popular Modern Sporting Rifle (MSR) platform. That same law also bans the possession of standard-capacity magazines and certain models of semiautomatic handguns. This unconstitutional law unquestionably violates the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Illinois citizens, and the state should be enjoined immediately from enforcing it.

“NSSF filed this motion for a preliminary injunction because every day this unconstitutional law is on the books, law-abiding citizens are being denied their right to keep and bear arms of their choosing for self-defense and other lawful purposes,” said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel. “This ban on MSRs and other commonly-owned rifles, standard-capacity magazines and certain handguns was passed in open defiance of the Supreme Court’s Bruen and Heller decisions. The Second Amendment protects the right of a citizen to freely approach a gun counter to legally purchase commonly-owned firearms, unless, as the Supreme Court held in Bruen, the state can prove its law is part of a historic, national tradition and heritage of banning such arms – something the state obviously cannot do.”

HB 5471 is among the nation’s most expansive gun control laws. It bans the sale of hundreds of models of rifles, including commonly-owned MSRs, certain semiautomatic handguns, and rifle and pistol magazines with a capacity greater than 10 and 15 ammunition cartridges, respectively. There are over 24.4 million MSRs in circulation today, more popular than the top-selling Ford F-150 and hundreds of millions of standard-capacity magazines owned by tens of millions of Americans.


About The National Shooting Sports Foundation

NSSF is the trade association for the firearm industry. Its mission is to promote, protect and preserve hunting and shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of thousands of manufacturers, distributors, firearm retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen’s organizations, and publishers nationwide. For more information, visit nssf.org

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Dubi Loo

PRICKster Ignores Constitution Act

Montana454Casull

Print correction ” Un protect Illinois citizens communist act ” is the true name of this garbage these clowns are promoting.

reno

I have suggested this before”””ALL GUN MAKERS, AMMO, PARTS, AND REPAIR SHOULD BAND TOGETHER AND REFUSE TO SELL TO ANY ANTI GUN GOVERNMENT(GUNS, AMMO, REPAIR PARTS OR WARRANTY REPAIRS OR ACCESSORY UNTIL THEY GUrentee the 2CD amendment with a law!!!! blue states POUND SAND
THIS WILL HURT FOR A WHILE BUT THEY WILL SEE THE ERROR OF THEIR WAYS! NO BACKDOOR SALES TO INDIVIDUAL LEO’S EITHER.