The Trump administration’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, Harmeet Dhillon, will make oral arguments against Illinois’ “assault weapons” ban later this month.
Dhillon will make those arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
The Chicago Tribune reported, “the Department of Justice is siding with gun-rights groups to oppose a Pritzker-backed law that was passed following the mass shooting at the 2022 Highland Park Fourth of July parade…”
The Tribune did not mention that Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety ranked Illinois as the state with the sixth most stringent gun controls in the country at the time of the attack. Those controls included a red flag law, a waiting period for gun purchases, gun owner licensing (FOID card requirement), domestic violence gun laws,
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