Assault weapons ban back in place for now. Here's what that means for Illinois residents

The assault weapons ban Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law in January is back in force after a federal appeals court Thursday blocked a temporary injunction that a lower court judge in East St. Louis issued April 28.

In a one-page order, Judge Frank H. Easterbrook of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago granted a motion from Attorney General Kwame Raoul to stay the injunction pending an appeal of the lower court’s order.

“The decision means that the Protect Illinois Communities Act remains in effect throughout Illinois,” Raoul said in a statement. “We continue to be committed to defending the law’s constitutionality in court.”

Lawmakers passed the ban during a special lame duck session in January, making Illinois the ninth state to enact such a law. It came in response to a mass shooting last year at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park that left seven people dead and dozens more injured or traumatized.

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