{"id":3388,"date":"2012-04-06T02:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/04\/06\/nra-ila-on-wilson-v-cook-county\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:18:09","slug":"nra-ila-on-wilson-v-cook-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3388","title":{"rendered":"NRA-ILA On Wilson V. Cook County"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15980,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nraila.org\\\/news-issues\\\/news-from-nra-ila\\\/2012\\\/4-april\\\/second-amendment-challenge-to-cook-county-gun-ban-moves-forward.aspx?s=&amp;st=&amp;ps=&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.nraila.org\\\/news-issues\\\/news-from-nra-ila\\\/2012\\\/4-april\\\/second-amendment-challenge-to-cook-county-gun-ban-moves-forward.aspx&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/news-issues\/news-from-nra-ila\/2012\/4-april\/second-amendment-challenge-to-cook-county-gun-ban-moves-forward.aspx?s=&amp;st=&amp;ps=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The NRA-ILA released this statement<\/a> on today&#8217;s unanimous ruling by the Illinois Supreme Court that reversed in part an Illinois appellate court ruling on the Cook County Blair Holt Assault Weapons Ban and remanded it back to the trial court level.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Fairfax, Va. \u2013 Today, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously denied an attempt by Cook County, Ill., to dismiss a challenge to the county\u2019s California-style ban on countless types of common semi-automatic firearms. The National Rifle Association supported the case brought by the NRA&#8217;s state affiliate, the Illinois State Rifle Association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very pleased with this ruling,\u201d said Chris W. Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association\u2019s Institute for Legislative Action. \u201cToday\u2019s decision makes clear that the lower courts shouldn\u2019t take challenges to these laws lightly and that plaintiffs deserve a full opportunity for their evidence to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s decision, the court reversed a lower appellate court\u2019s ruling that upheld the ban merely because it was supposedly similar to bans that had been upheld elsewhere. But of the three cases cited by the lower court, two relied on \u201cfacts\u201d provided in legislative findings and testimony by anti-gun legislators and gun ban lobbyists; the third involved a challenge to federal regulation of fully automatic machine guns, rather than semi-automatic firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Adopting a much more rigorous approach, the Illinois Supreme Court found it couldn\u2019t say the guns banned by Cook County \u201ccategorically fall outside the scope of the rights protected by the [Second Amendment].\u201d Therefore, the case will be returned to the trial court for more fact-finding.<\/p>\n<p>Key to the final outcome will be evidence that the guns in question are \u201cin common use\u201d and \u201ctypically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes,\u201d which are the standards that the U.S. Supreme Court suggested would determine whether a particular type of \u201carm\u201d falls within the Second Amendment\u2019s protections.<\/p>\n<p>On that issue, the numbers are overwhelming. Based on production statistics published by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, about 3.1 million AR-15 rifles have been made just since 1986, and AR-15s alone made up 4.3 percent of all firearms and 13.3 percent of all rifles sold in the U.S. from 2007 to 2010. The AR-15, of course, is just one of the many firearms banned in Cook County. These figures go to show that Cook County hasn\u2019t just banned \u201ccommon\u201d guns; it has banned the most popular rifles of our time, used by countless law-abiding Americans for every kind of lawful purpose.<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NRA-ILA released this statement on today&#8217;s unanimous ruling by the Illinois Supreme Court that reversed in part an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[92,3858],"class_list":["post-3388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nra-ila","tag-wilson-v-cook-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7873,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions\/7873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}