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IL: Seventh Circuit Appeals Court Upholds Cook County Assault Weapons Ban
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Website: http://libertyparkpress.com
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In a unanimous opinion issued Aug. 29, judges Kenneth Ripple, David Hamilton and Amy St. Eve, of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, said the two Cook County residents who appealed a dismissal of their Second Amendment challenge argued from the same losing position as the plaintiff in a 2015 case. The law at question is the Blair Holt Assault Weapons Ban, a November 2006 amendment to the Cook County Deadly Weapons Dealer Control Ordinance that “defines ‘assault weapon’ and ‘large-capacity magazine,’ and makes it illegal to ‘manufacture, sell, offer or display for sale, give, lend, transfer ownership of, acquire, carry or possess’ either item in Cook County.” |
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“If a ban on semi-automatic guns and large-capacity magazines reduces the perceived risk from a mass shooting, and makes the public feel safer as a result, that’s a substantial benefit,” the 12-page majority opinion said.
Such brazen thumbing of the nose at an enshrined fundamental right with the scope of precedent established by Miller, Heller and McDonald is breathtaking.
How the public feels overrules constitutional commands?
I seem to remember the public in Arkansas feeling that the Little Rock Nine shouldn't be permitted to attend Little Rock Central High in 1957. Is Brown v. Board of Education therefore illegitimate?
This arrogance cannot be allowed to continue unaddressed. |
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