ISRA and Plaintiffs File Motion to End Purgatory in “Assault” Weapons Case
ISRA and Plaintiffs File Motion to End Purgatory in “Assault” Weapons Case
On Friday the Illinois State Rifle Association along with numerous other plaintiffs in the Barnett v. Raoul consolidated cases filed a motion to set a briefing schedule in the ongoing fight against the unconstitutional ban on commonly owned firearms in Illinois.
Four months ago, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay of the injunction issued byJustice McGlyyn of the Southern District of Illinois against this unconstitutional law .
” The ban on commonly owned firearms in Illinois was implemented by Governor Pritzker over 2 years ago, and the federal courts have determined that it is an infringement on constitutional rights. The ISRA warned about this outcome during legislative debate on the ban. Now the 7th Circuit continues to deny rights to the citizens of Illinois by furthering delays and leaving this case in purgatory. This motion hopes to end further unnecessary delays, and finally set legal arguments, moving this case forward on the path towards a final decision which we believe will end up with the full restoration of Second Amendment rights in the State of Illinois.” – Said Richard Pearson, Executive Director of the Illinois State Rifle Association.
“It is often said that a right delayed is a right denied. In this sense, Governor Pritzker seems to enjoy denying the rights of those he disagrees with by continuing with a myriad of gun control schemes designed to delay and deny rights to Illinois citizens. The ISRA will continue to fight these schemes in the courts and in the legislature”
“Ninety-eight percent of the people in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.”
Lily Tomlin
“The people who work against your gun rights are basically saying to you, “The right of the criminal to rip you off, rape and kill you shall not be infringed.” And they wonder why we’re a bit testy”
Editor of KABA LIBERTY ADVOCATE, Friday, July 30, 2001
“I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.”
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
“You may find me one day dead in a ditch somewhere. But by God, you’ll find me in a pile of brass.”
Tpr. M. Padgett
“Using inner city kids as your proof that guns and kids don’t mix, is like using an alcoholic to prove all people will abuse alcohol.”
Lori Broadhead
“How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless.”
Ted Nugent
The said Constitution [shall] never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe or to prevent the people of the United States from keeping their own arms.”
Samuel Adams, Massachusetts' U.S. Constitution Ratification Convention, 1788
“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.”
Thomas B. Reed (1886)
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution (1776)
“Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution are courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the constitution THEY don’t like.”
Alan Dershowitz
“Every 13 seconds in America someone uses a gun to stop a crime.”
Sen. Larry Craig
“The AK-47 is not a device of aggression … I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country,”
