Earlier this week the appellees filed their response in the case of Barnett v. Raoul with the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. The brief responds to the state of Illinois’ appeal challenging the Preliminary Injunction awarded by the lower court that barred the implementation of the state’s Protect Illinois Communities Act (PICA) which took a radical step of banning nearly every modern semiautomatic rifle possessed in America.
As noted in the response brief, “the district court was thus eminently correct to recognize Illinois’s grave overstep and enjoin HB 5471”. The state cannot simply slap a label on a firearm they do not like when that firearm is one in common use and owned by millions of law-abiding Americans.
“Second Amendment Law Center has been working hard to coordinate amicus briefs from a wide variety of groups including law enforcement, states, scholars, and experts,” noted Chuck Michel, President & Senior Legal Counsel for 2ALC. “We expect those briefs will have a positive impact on the court’s reasoning, and we are hopeful of a victory here. But we recognize the politics behind the issues and are prepared to take this to the Supreme Court if necessary.”
Anti-gun states like Illinois and California strain to try to make arguments outside of the Bruen ruling in an effort to get one court to side with their twisted analysis of historical laws and what it means to be armed or to bear arms through their made-up version of Second Amendment jurisprudence. The district court correctly applied Bruen to the case and the preliminary injunction should remain. Hopefully, the Seventh Circuit will agree.
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