Appeals court upholds restraining order on Illinois gun ban

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois appellate court on Tuesday upheld a temporary restraining order on enforcement of the state's three-week-old law banning semiautomatic weapons , enacted largely in response to the mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park.

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