The US Supreme Court has declined to put a temporary hold on an Illinois law that bans the sale of assault-style weapons and a variety of other guns and accessories.
The law will require existing owners of the restricted items to register them by 1 January.
A gun rights group and the owner of a gun shop have sued to stop the implementation of the law.
Their case has consistently been rebuffed by lower courts.
The legislation took effect in January and sales of the restricted guns were stopped immediately.
I like how one of the examples is a pistol from 1896.
It’s pretty thorough, but I do note that the Mini-14, which has very similar specs to the AR-15, does not appear to be banned in that guide.
I assume most of the examples were whatever was handy in various evidence rooms.
I am basically always for stricter gun control laws. But this seems pretty reasonable. Without banning all semiauto weapons (and now I have a chubby…), this basically gets rid of all “military style”/“tacticool” weapons that are easily concealable. Yes, you can do a LOT of damage with a mini-14 but it is basically a semiauto hunting rifle (which is useful if you are an idiot and in bear country or whatever).
And, as has been demonstrated over the past century or so, using a weapon without some form of pistol/thumbhole grip in close quarters is very inadvisable. Which restricts this to the clocktower shooters of the 70s and 80s as opposed to the modern day elementary school shooter.