Gun Rights Groups Asks Supreme Court to End Illinois Gun, Magazine Ban

Plaintiffs say Illinois law clearly violates principles laid down in landmark Supreme Court decisions in Second Amendment cases.

Danny Egan (L) helps a customer shop for a handgun at Freddie Bear Sports on March 11, 2015 in Tinley Park, Illinois. Scott Olson/Getty Images

Two Second Amendment advocacy groups petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments against Illinois’s ban on certain semiautomatic firearms and magazines.

The National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) announced in a Feb. 12, 2024, press release that it had filed a petition for certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and strike down the Protecting Illinois Communities Act (Act).