What Are The Chances Of Gun Rights Activist Winning In Case Against Deerfield, IL?

By Tom Knighton

A lot of us are paying an awful lot of attention to a tiny spec on the Illinois state map. Yes, I’m one of them, and we’re not paying attention to that dot on the paper for no good reason. In fact, there’s a lot going on in that simple case. There are also a whole lot of angles at work here.

Further, I’m not a legal mind by any stretch of the imagination. I’m a guy who bangs away at a keyboard about guns and politics for a living, which means I need a breadth of knowledge, but being an expert on any one topic is probably not in the cards for me. Luckily, there are legal experts out there who are willing to opine on stuff like this for me.

Over at Reason’s Volokh Conspiracy, we learn a little bit more about the case against Deerfield, including precedences that might be useful in the case.

There’s one big hole that I’ve completely missed in my discussion of the topic, too.

Yesterday a firearm and magazine confiscation ordinance in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield was blocked on by a temporary restraining order. The Lake County Circuit Court held that the …Read the Rest

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