Illinois Gun Ban

The Illinois Supreme Court agreed this week to fast-track the state’s appeal of a Macon County judge’s ruling against parts of a recently passed state ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

During an at-times contentious meeting filled with public comment and back-and-forth questions about civil liberties, safety and morality, the McHenry County Board passed a resolution opposing Illinois’ recent gun ban.

McHenry County Board discusses a proposed resolution opposing the Illinois gun ban and supporting its repeal in the Illinois State Legislature at its meeting Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023.

Before the vote was taken, Bureau County State’s Attorney Tom Briddick addressed the board regarding the role his office will play moving forward and what approval of the resolution might mean in regards to the county’s potential liability, should an issue arise.

Sheriffs across the state have pledged not to enforce the new and hotly-disputed Illinois gun ban, but police chiefs in the Illinois Valley aren’t necessarily siding with the sheriffs.

Gun owners throughout the Illinois Valley have expressed support for the state’s ban on certain high-powered weapons, citing mass shootings, harm to children and dangerous weaponry as key factors.

Nearly 40 residents spoke Tuesday at the McHenry County Law and Government Committee meeting about a resolution denouncing the new gun ban in Illinois

A temporary restraining order will remain in place blocking enforcement of Illinois’ new ban on high-powered semi-automatic weapons for a group of plaintiffs who filed suit earlier this week in Effingham County following a ruling from the Fifth District Appellate Court in Mt. Ver

The lawsuit, filed by State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally, calls the new law a “clear violation of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution."

A McHenry County gun shop is part of a group seeking to put a temporary halt to the new Illinois gun ban, the latest step in a federal lawsuit filed last week by the group challenging the law’s constitutionality.

Illinois’ two-week-old gun ban outlaws “ubiquitous” firearms in “radical” defiance of the Constitution’s Second Amendment, a federal lawsuit filed by the National Rifle Association claims.

A resolution to make McHenry County a gun sanctuary was submitted by the Republican Party of McHenry County, but that may not be what is considered at the County Board's Jan. 31 committee meeting.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office confirmed Monday that it had filed a petition in the 5th District Appellate Court in southern Illinois asking the court to vacate the temporary restraining order against the state's recently-passed gun ban.

State lawmakers issued the ban in response to gun violence and mass shootings such as the July 4th parade massacre in Highland Park last year, which left seven people dead and 36 injured.

A downstate judge has granted a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of Illinois’ new ban on high-powered semi-automatic weapons for a group of plaintiffs who filed suit earlier this week in Effingham County.