The ban was signed into law in January 2023 and prohibited the sale or transfer of assault rifles and high-capacity magazines ...

“I am pleased to sign … public safety bills which are ... which included an assault weapons ban and a measure to close the ...

Officials in the state have already filed an appeal after the Trump-appointed judge’s ruling, which cites recent Supreme ...

A federal judge has ruled Illinois' assault weapons ban is unconstitutional, according to a decision released Friday.

SPRINGFIELD – A federal judge in East St. Louis on Friday struck down Illinois’ assault weapons ban on the grounds that it ...

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Most forms of the gun had been prohibited under the 1994 federal assault weapons ban that was allowed to expire in 2004, following ferocious lobbying by the National Rifle Association. People pay ...

A Denver man was sentenced to a decade in prison for a road rage assault in Douglas County, which was caught on a driver's dash camera. The dash camera catches the scene at around the one-minute mark.

Prior to the shooting, the state boasted regulations that closely tracked the federal assault-weapons ban, which included a two-prong test ... Hook shooter in the 2012 elementary school massacre. Sign ...

It is now known as the Blair Holt Assault Weapons Ban, named after a Chicago teen who was killed in a 2007 shooting while protecting a high school classmate. Both cases are among the numerous ...

"Make no mistake, we know that an assault weapon ban can work because it has worked before," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a floor speech. Assault weapons were banned in the US in 1994 ...

A federal judge has struck down Illinois’ assault weapons ban. The East St. Louis judge ruled against the ban, saying it ...