The Illinois Supreme Court couldn’t come to a constitutionally required concurrence in a case challenging Deerfield’s ban on certain types of rifles. In a one-page opinion issued Thursday, the high court said with one justice recusing himself, the remainder were evenly split and the case was dismissed. Democratic state Rep. Bob Morgan said in a statement the outcome affirms that local municipalities have the ability to control the weapons in their community. But, Guns Save Life founder John Boch said the lower court ruling was split on the Deerfield case.
As to whether the ruling allows other municipalities to limit the types of firearms, Boch said that window has already closed from the 2013 concealed carry law.
Boch didn’t think there’s any political capital at the Illinois statehouse to ban what he called the most popular rifle in America.
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