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Posted by: Paul Burch on Nov 6, 2023

A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld an Illinois state ban on assault-style weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, reports Reuters. The ban was enacted after a 2022 mass shooting in a Chicago suburb that left seven people dead and dozens wounded. In a 2-1 vote, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a lower-court injunction imposed against the firearms restrictions in one set of cases but affirmed other decisions keeping the law intact. The Democratic-backed state measure bans the sale and distribution of high-powered semiautomatic weapons such as AK-47 and AR-15 rifles and large-capacity magazines.