U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn is holding off on enforcing his ruling for 30 days to allow Illinois leaders time to ...

A federal judge in Illinois has ruled the state's blanket ban on assault weapons is unconstitutional and violates the Second ...

In this August 2012 photo, three variations of the AR-15 assault rifle are displayed at the California Department of Justice ...

Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A federal judge in East St. Louis on Friday struck down ...

Government may not deprive law-abiding citizens of their guaranteed right to self-defense as a means of offense,” the judge ...

Officials in the state have already filed an appeal after the Trump-appointed judge’s ruling, which cites recent Supreme ...

The ruling increases the likelihood that the conservative-majority Supreme Court will one day consider whether the Second ...

A panel of federal judges is weighing whether to overturn a Cook County ban on semiautomatic weapons in a case that could ...

U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn says the law bans firearms covered by the Second Amendment and is not supported by ...

The case went before the appellate court only four days after a conservative federal judge declared Illinois' statewide ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A downstate federal judge has ruled Illinois' assault weapons ban unconstitutional on Friday. The judge in ...

Illinois lawmakers first passed the assault weapon ban, as well as a ban on high-capacity ammo magazines, in January 2023.