Sales of the Smith & Wesson M&P 15 used in the Highland Park Independence Day attack, which left seven dead, are now banned in Illinois, as are nearly 200 other guns classified as “assault weapons” under a new law.
It wasn’t firecrackers. It was hailing bullets. Bennett testified how it felt as she was shot in her hip and upper back, how she feared not only for her life but also for her young sons’ lives.
With his signature, hundreds — potentially thousands when all permutations, makes, models, colors, features and implements are factored in — of guns became illegal for sale in Illinois. While Illinois law now specifically categorizes certain guns as “assault weapons,” Eldridge said “the term itself — ‘assault weapon’ — is a made-up term by the gun control people in the late ‘80s when they were trying to conflate semi-automatic rifles with machine guns. It’s a made-up term that has absolutely no meaning.”
Eldridge is confident the federal courts will agree with that mindset, based on the U.S. Supreme Court’s Heller decision, which held that the Second Amendment protects arms in “common use” for lawful purposes. “That was not always the case,” Dart said. “So, like 16 years ago when I started, this was not normal. We wouldn’t get these type of weapons, with this type of lethality. It would be rare occasions where we would get one of them or two of ‘em.”
“The problem is that in trying to cover every size, shape and flavor, they’ve added these lists of features that have unintended coverage,” Eldridge said.
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