Supreme Court Leaves Illinois Gun Restrictions In Place

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law in a ruling last month.
51% : The justices previously turned away another emergency request by the plaintiffs to pause the law in May.
48% : In a brief order without explanation, the Supreme Court declined a request by the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR), along with a gun shop owner, to halt enforcement of the law, along with a similar ordinance passed in the city of Naperville, while they appeal the case.
40% : (RELATED: Newly Proposed Bill Plots A Novel Attack On Americans' Gun Rights)The guns banned by the law are "possessed by millions of law-abiding Americans who overwhelmingly use them for lawful purposes, including self-defense in the home," they wrote.

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