On 12/14/23 SCOTUS issued an order at the end of a week heavy w/SCOTUS news. After a July 4, 2022, mass shooting in Highland Park, the State of Illinois and the City of Naperville enacted placed restrictions on assault weapons [FN1] & large capacity magazines. 1/7

In Bevis [FN2], a lobbying group & a gun store owner filed a lawsuit and argued the restrictions violate the 2nd Amendment. They sought to stop the laws’ enforcement pending outcome of their lawsuit. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, for a 2nd time, declined the request. 2/7

The Supreme Court declined to consider the request. This is an encouraging development. People who advocate a gun culture yuck it up as carnage occurs. An individual does not have a right, under the 2nd Amendment, to possess any kind of weapon at any time for any purpose. 3/7

Those words did not originate w/me, a left-wing pacifist. They are from the late Justice Antonin Scalia. [FN3] The statute and the ordinance are consistent w/Heller & a good start. Over half of deaths from guns are suicides. We need to reduce those numbers, too. 4/7

Footnotes: FN1. Naperville ordinance defines “semiautomatic assault weapon” same as fed assault weapons ban in effect 1994 through 2004. See Response to Renewed Application for Injunction Pending Review, 12/6/23, p. 3. . 5/7

Footnotes: FN2. The full case cite is National Association for Gun Rights, Richard Bevis and Law Weapons, Inc d/b/a Law Weapons & Supply v City of Naperville, Illinois Jason Arres and the State of Illinois, 23A-486, but for brevity here cite to the case as “Bevis.” 6/7

Footnotes: FN4. D.C., et al v Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 626 (2008). 7/7