Supreme Court Refuses To Block Illinois Assault Weapon Ban

Via The Truth About Guns by Darwin Nercesian

I’m not sure if United States Supreme Court Justices leave their spines at home or if they are permanently confiscated upon confirmation, but the High Court seems much more proficient at kicking the can down the road than they do at preserving and defending the Constitution. My grumpy disposition is brought to you today by the Supreme Court’s refusal to block enforcement of or overturn an Illinois assault weapons ban that includes .50 Caliber rifles and high-capacity magazines.

Still masquerading as part of the United States, Illinois continues to wave its middle finger at Americans and the Supreme Court, responding to an expanded recognition of gun rights by enacting stricter gun control measures to constrict those liberties further instead. The ban was signed into law in January by Illinois’s Democrat Führer J.B. Pritzker and imposes penalties upon anyone who carries, possesses, manufactures, sells, delivers, imports, or purchases any firearm the Bundesländer defines as an assault weapon or .50 caliber rifle. Crazy, right? It gets worse. The ban doubles down by imposing statutory penalties upon any person who possesses, manufactures, sells, delivers, imports, or purchases an assault weapon attachment or a .50 caliber cartridge.

Don’t think I am trying to reason with the treasonous scum who control Illinois so much as I am venting frustration for their unchecked subversive behavior and their blatent regard for Americans as stupid sheep, but what the hell is an assault weapon attachment? The law also prohibits any tools or kits that increase a semi-automatic rate of fire, likely targeting binary and FRT triggers that, ironically, do not alter the rate of fire, as the rate is still one round per actuation of the trigger. Of course, when they take you for a fool, these Schutzstaffel will try to pass off just about anything. Well, I’m glad that’s over. Wait, the law also includes purchase limits for certain types of magazines.

An Illinois gun shop, Law Weapons and Supply, teamed up with the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) to claim that these measures violated the Supreme Court’s ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen. This ruling established a new standard that requires gun control measures to demonstrate a “historical tradition” of regulation in the United States to be considered Constitutional. As such, NAGR and Robert Bevis, owner of Law Weapons and Supply, petitioned the Supreme Court for an emergency ruling to prevent enforcement of the ban as a violation of the Second Amendment.

The Supreme Court’s chicken turd denial of the petition was issued without any dissenting opinions, just a refusal to overturn or block the law’s enforcement, accomplishing a few things. First, the Justices revealed that they unequivocally will not defend the Constitution or the rights of the American people, an obligation they swore an oath to. Second, they’ve demonstrated a lack of backbone in defending the Court’s own rulings while leftist states mock them in further defiance. Like those guys who get belittled while another guy has his way with the wife. What’s the word for that again?

“Delaying a right results in its denial, and enforcing these gun bans every day is an affront to freedom. We will be back to the Supreme Court as soon as our legal team finishes drafting our cert petition, and they will have to decide if they meant what they said in Heller and Bruen,” says Dudley Brown, president of NAGR.

Credibility is a funny thing. Official documents reveal that Illinois argued that plaintiffs failed to meet the stringent standards for emergency relief from the Supreme Court. If not for the contempt Illinois has for the Americans living there, this petulant whining would be laughable as the “state” vomits these standards while it rejects the plain text of the Second Amendment and perverts the Bruen standard with its own legislation—rules for thee but not for me.

“In the meantime, plaintiffs and hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Illinois citizens are suffering irreparable injury because their fundamental right to keep and bear arms is being infringed,” according to court filings submitted by the plaintiffs.

That’s exactly what’s happening, and it’s why Illinois is a dumpster fire worth moving on from. I know all the excuses.

Job, family, friends, neighborhood, routine… All these things can still be had elsewhere, but you know what can’t? You’ll never have that time back, and nobody will ever make you whole for the promises of liberty stolen from you. I feel like a broken record here, but hard-working, law-abiding Americans need to flee leftist states in droves, tank their economies, leave them destitute with the criminal class they do protect, and fortify the free states that continue to hold the line and value the American Dream.

You’ll notice a few of my not-so-subtle references to a totalitarian dictatorship that existed in Europe from 1933 to 1945, for which I will simply say, if it walks like one, talks like one, and acts like one… As for the Supreme Court, perhaps they need to check the detergent those robes are washed in for brain-eating amoebas, but most likely, they are just more of the same weak-minded and compromised individuals that tend to fail upwards in the .gov system. The spirit of the law dictates the letter, and they have allowed both to die in Illinois.

Read in its entirety at thetruthaboutguns.com.

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