The Supreme Court refuses to block an Illinois law banning some high-power semiautomatic weapons

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Those who own such guns and accessories when the law was enacted have to register them, including serial numbers, with the Illinois State Police.
53% : The Illinois Supreme Court separately upheld the law on a 4-3 decision in August.
52% : At least eight other states and the District of Columbia have some sort of prohibition on semiautomatic weapons, and several cases challenging those laws are making their way through the federal courts, relying at least in part on the Supreme Court's decision in 2022 that expanded gun rights.
49% : It takes effect Jan. 1.Last month, a three-judge panel of the 7th District U.S. Court of Appeals voted 2-1 in favor of the law, refusing a request by gun rights groups to block it.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.