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The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Cook County tax on gun purchases is unconstitutional, but it left the door open for a more tailored tax. ....
The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a lower appellate panel and held that Cook County's firearm and ammunition taxes are unconstitutional, saying the relationship between the tax classification and the use of the tax proceeds is not sufficiently tied to the county's purported objective of curbing gun violence. ....
ADVERTISEMENT Ill. Justices Urged To Strike County s Firearms, Ammo Taxes Law360 (May 13, 2021, 6:33 PM EDT) A gun rights advocacy group urged the Illinois Supreme Court to strike down Cook County s taxes on firearms and ammunition sales on Thursday, arguing the taxes unconstitutionally burden individuals ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights. Illinois-based Guns Save Life Inc. told the state high court that an intermediate appellate panel applied the wrong analysis when it said Cook County s firearm and ammunition taxes are legally permissible because they don t prohibit someone from exercising their rights under the Second Amendment. That is not the law, the group s counsel, Peter Patterson of Cooper & Kirk PLLC, argued. It is the fact of. ....
Illinois Supreme Court Decides to Hear Second NRA-Backed Case Ammoland Inc. Posted on IMG NRA-ILA U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- The Illinois Supreme Court decided to hear an NRA-ILA-backed case challenging the city of Deerfield’s so-called “assault weapon” ban under the state’s preemption statute. This is the second NRA-ILA backed case that the court has decided to hear in recent times. When Illinois adopted its preemption statute, it gave localities a limited timeframe wherein they could pass gun-control ordinances. Deerfield passed its so-called assault weapon ban outside of that timeframe. It argued that because it already had some gun-control ordinances passed within the timeframe, its new ban was just an amendment of the ordinances that were grandfathered in. The court of appeals sided with them. ....