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The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals handed down an opinion Monday by a 2-1 majority of a three-judge panel that the controversial ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines in Highland Park, Illinois, is constitutional

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A trio of gun rights organizations along with ten private citizens filed suit Wednesday against the state of Illinois over its policy of refusing nonresident concealed carry reciprocity.

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Following the possibility of litigation from a state gun rights group, the Peoria, Illinois City Council rolled back a city ordinance that would have required potential gun buyers to provide their thumbprint.

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As a follow up to the defeat in the courts of the city's ban on gun stores earlier this year, Chicago has now been billed with nearly $1 million in legal fees from gun rights attorneys.

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Shooting ranges in the Land of Lincoln have proved to be in short supply since the enactment of the state's shall-issue concealed carry law last year.

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel is asking that the city give him six months to come up with rules and regulations for gun dealers after a federal court ruling on Monday determined that Chicago’s blanket ban on gun sales was unconstitutional.

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The wait continues. A federal judge rejected a lawsuit that would have allowed law-abiding Illinoisans to start carrying concealed firearms in public now, instead of 9-plus months from now when the state police have the CCW issuance system set up.

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Hours after Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day, an annual gun control sponsored grievance event in Springfield, the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA), in combined efforts with four additional plaintiffs, obtained a temporary restraining order.  This order in effect halts the release of the name

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Originally, organizers in Springfield anticipated concealed carry would take center-stage at this years Illinois Gun Owners' Lobby Day (IGOLD), but with Attorney General Lisa Madigan's recent order to State Police to make public the names of some 1.3 million FOID cardholders, there will most lik

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