Gun Rights
I Hate Illinois Nazis: “Assault Weapon” Ban Going to Court

So do we, Joliet and Elwood. So do we.
Cook County, Illinois, is infamous for its anti-gun attitudes … but the Second Amendment Foundation is on a Mission from God. We have a full tank of gas and half a pack of cigarettes. Hit it!_________________________________________________________________________
The Second Amendment Foundation filed a lawsuit Tuesday, August 31, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois challenging a prohibition in Cook County against the possession, acquisition, gifting, transfer or carrying of so-called โassault weapons.โ The case is known as Viramontes v. Cook County.
โThe county has enacted and enforced a prohibition on semiautomatic modern sporting rifles, which they erroneously describe as โassault weapons,โ even though such firearms are in common use all over the country,โ said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. โAs a result, the county is denying our individual plaintiffs their rights under the Second Amendment to keep and bear arms.โ
The โBlair Holt Assault Weapons Banโ was adopted in November 2006 and revised in July 2013, according to the SAF complaint. It criminalized possession of so-called โassault weapons,โ forcing owners of such firearms to remove them from the county, make them permanently inoperable or surrender them to the sheriff. The ban also deems such firearms โcontrabandโ and requires the sheriff to seize them.
โThis ordinance bans any semi-auto rifle that can accept a magazine of more than ten rounds, if it has any one of various cosmetic features that have nothing to do with how the firearm functions,โ Gottlieb explained. โIt lists a number of firearms banned under the law and the list looks like someone just scanned a bunch of scary-looking guns and added them to the roster.
โThe guns on the ban list are commonly owned and used all over the country for all kinds of legitimate purposes including hunting, target shooting, competition, predator control and recreation,โ he said. โCitizens have a right to own such firearms, and to ban them is an affront to the Constitution.โ
SAF is joined by the Firearms Policy Coalition and three private citizens, Cutberto Viramontes, Rubi Joyal and Christopher Khaya, all Cook County residents. Named as defendants are Cook County, Toni Preckwinkle, president of the Cook County Board and the countyโs chief executive officer; Kimberly M. Foxx, stateโs attorney and Sheriff Thomas Dart, in their official capacities. Plaintiffs are represented by attorneys Christian D. Ambler of Stone & Johnson. CHTD in Chicago and David H. Thompson, Peter A. Patterson and William V. Bergstrom with Cooper & Kirk, PLLC, Washington, D.C.
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