On the House floor Tuesday, state Rep. Dan Caulkins, R-Decatur, said the state’s gun ban was deemed unconstitutional by ...

A downstate federal judge on Friday ruled that Illinois’ sweeping gun ban is unconstitutional and can no longer be enforced ...

A federal judge on Friday struck down an Illinois law banning many semi-automatic firearms, saying it ran afoul of the U.S.

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

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

It took U.S. Judge Stephen McGlynn 178 pages to explain why, but the bottom line is that the downstate federal judge has declared Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s highly touted assault-weapons ban ...

A federal judge has overturned Illinois’ ban on semiautomatic weapons, leaning on recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that ...

Now, Illinois lawmakers are pushing legislation that would strengthen gun storage laws. The Safe Firearm Storage Act, filed under Senate Bill 3971 and House Bill 5891, would prohibit the ...

The constitutionality of local bans on “assault weapons,” the phrase used in such laws, has been ... that advocates for ...

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to move back to the White House, he has said he will keep his promise to sign a ...

McGlynn finding Illinois’ assault weapons ban unconstitutional ... elsewhere have indeed struggled with recent Supreme Court ...