A federal lawsuit filed this week is one of several new suits to assert a recently signed Illinois gun law is illegal.
House Bill 5471, the Protect Illinois Communities Act, runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, the new 28-page suit charges.
“‘The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees ‘the right of the people to keep and bear Arms.’ Under this constitutional provision, Plaintiff Harrel, and all other law-abiding, responsible Illinoisans have a fundamental, constitutionally guaranteed right to keep and bear common firearms for defense of self and family and for other lawful pursuits,” it states. “But the State has enacted, and Defendants have authority to enforce, a flat prohibition on the manufacture, delivery, sale, import, purchase, and possession of many common firearms—tendentiously labeled ‘assault weapons’—by ordinary citizens, making it a crime for law-abiding citizens to exercise their fundamental right to keep and bear such arms.”…