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Federal Court of Appeals approved Illinois’s ban on carrying firearms on public transportation, reversing a lower court ruling that found gun restrictions exceeded more than a decade ago in violation of guns second Amendment The United States Constitution.
The Seventh Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Joshua Kolar, wrote most of the people that the injunction “in hundreds of years of habit, limits guns in sensitive and crowded, restricted places.”
“The Second Amendment protects the right to self-defense of individuals. It does not prevent the people’s representatives from making laws (as consistent with our country’s historical regulatory traditions) to ensure that the public transportation system is not accessible to accessible guns,” Kolar wrote.
The federal appeals court approved an Illinois ban on carrying firearms on public transportation. (AP)
“We were asked whether the state could temporarily disarm its citizens because they traveled with crowded and restricted metal tubes, unlike anything the founder envisioned,” the judge continued. “We draw inspiration from the lessons of the national historical regulatory tradition, in which no violations of the Second Amendment were found.”
Last year, the U.S. District Court in Northern District, Illinois supported four plaintiffs who claimed it was unconstitutional to restrict people from carrying guns on public buses and trains.
District Courts Rely on 2022 U.S. Supreme Court Decision, New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, one of the new criteria to determine whether gun restrictions were established. To meet this standard, the government must show that there is a “historical tradition of gun regulations” that supports the law. The court said there were no similar conditions that justify gun restrictions on public transport.
Last year, the lower court supported four plaintiffs who claimed it was unconstitutional to restrict people from carrying guns on public buses and trains. (Photo taken by Gregory Potter/Temporary Archives/Getty Images
But the Court of Appeal believes that the injunction is constitutionally protected.
“We care about whether the law is consistent with the traditions of the state.” “We believe [the law] It is constitutional because it conforms to the regulatory principles that originated from the founding era and continue to this day. ”
The case was initiated by several Illinois gun owners and backed by the Gun Rights Group and is expected to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Plaintiff argues transit restrictions violate the High Court’s 2022 Bruen The Seventh Circuit decision, the state showed enough historical basis to see crowded public transport as a “sensitive place.”
Public transport gun ban was implemented in 2013 Illinois is the last state In countries where the country has approved the carrying of hidden weapons in public.
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The public transport gun ban was implemented in 2013. (Christopher Diltes/Bloomberg by Getty Image)
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In addition to banning guns on buses and trains, the measure restricts gun ownership in hospitals and some other public places.
Kolar, appointed by former President Joe Biden, was joined by Judge Kenneth Ripple, who was appointed by former President Ronald Reagan. Judge Amy St. Eve, who was elected by the president during his first term, expressed a separate consent.
“I wrote a letter alone to highlight a difficult jurisdictional issue, and today’s opinion carefully preserves the case for the future: how the plaintiff defines her injury as a threat to incapable of engaging in protected activities – rather than a threat to do so, rather than an unchallenged law that also prohibits precise activities.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
