It’s stunning that in our gun-saturated country, firearms like AR-15s and AK-47s are covered under the 2nd Amendment, firearms that are mass shooters’ favorite weapons. But what can we do? Protests don’t seem to work. The March For Our Lives demonstration in Washington, DC, was massive. I was part of between 1.2 and 2 million people, making it one of the largest protests in American history.
Not much has happened since then, except for the Illinois assault weapons ban, but a Trump-appointed judge overturned that on Friday. Sigh.
HuffPost reports:
A federal judge overturned an Illinois assault weapons ban Friday, contending that the law enacted in response to the 2022 mass shooting at a Highland Park parade violated the Second Amendment in its entirety.
The 168-page ruling, by Donald Trump-appointee Stephen McGlynn, deals a sharp blow to reformers and marks the latest major court ruling to expand gun rights in the wake of the conservative-dominated U.S. Supreme Court’s sweeping reinterpretation of the Second Amendment two years ago.
The decision boosts the likelihood that the Supreme Court will eventually weigh in on whether states can restrict the sale of semiautomatic rifles, such as AR-15s and AK-47s, without running afoul of the Constitution.
