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    From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to All on Tue Dec 17 09:18:00 2024
    Per the January 2025 edition of American Rifleman, the US District Court
    for the Southern District of Illinois struck down parts of the Protect
    Illinois Communities Act (PICA) that restricted "assault weapons" and "large-capcacity magazines" in the case of Barnett v. Raoul.

    Using the SCOTUS text-and-history test, the court found that these weapons
    and accessories are "common arms," but not "dangerous and unusual," which
    means that they are protected by the US Constitution's 2nd Amendment.

    This happened on November 8 of this year.

    I tried to find a link online to this info but was not successful.
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  • From Dan Clough@1:135/115 to Mike Powell on Tue Dec 17 13:37:11 2024
    Mike Powell wrote to All <=-

    Per the January 2025 edition of American Rifleman, the US District
    Court for the Southern District of Illinois struck down parts of the Protect Illinois Communities Act (PICA) that restricted "assault
    weapons" and "large-capcacity magazines" in the case of Barnett v.
    Raoul.

    Using the SCOTUS text-and-history test, the court found that these
    weapons and accessories are "common arms," but not "dangerous and unusual," which means that they are protected by the US Constitution's
    2nd Amendment.

    This happened on November 8 of this year.

    I tried to find a link online to this info but was not successful.

    Very interesting indeed, and a win for freedom.

    There are stories on this, such as below:

    https://news.wttw.com/2024/11/11/what-comes-next-after-judge-strikes-down-illinois-assault-weapons-ban

    but doesn't seem to be well-covered, or at all, by the "mainstream"
    media. What a surprise. ;-)



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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to DAN CLOUGH on Wed Dec 18 09:07:00 2024
    Very interesting indeed, and a win for freedom.

    Indeed!

    but doesn't seem to be well-covered, or at all, by the "mainstream"
    media. What a surprise. ;-)

    To be fair, I tried searching on the NRA site (since it was their magazine
    I found it in) and couldn't find it. That makes me suspect my search parameters were poor. Glad you found at least one article about it. ;)

    Mike


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