Posted August 30, 2019 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

When the Heller decision came down, it made a few things clear. One was that yes, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. Another was that common, popular firearms could not be banned. In the case of Heller, it was a handgun ban, but the Court made it very clear that other such bans were also an issue.

However, despite the fact that the case should have been a game-changer and completely undermined gun control efforts for the next century, it didn’t. Gun control efforts proceed, now with more vigor than in years prior.

Further, it seems some courts never got the memo.

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a county-wide ban on assault weapons and limits on magazine capacity. The three-judge panel rendered a unanimous opinion for the court, including the assent of Trump appointee Judge Amy Joan St. Eve.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit found that two Cook County, Illinois residents who sought to challenge these restrictions came “forward with no reason — much less a compelling one,” to revisit the court’s own precedent establishing such rules as constitutional.

A U.S. District Court judge dismissed the lawsuit last year, and …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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