Second Amendment win: Judge overturns Illinois gun ban

What's the point of the Second Amendment anyway?

A federal judge overturned an Illinois gun ban on Friday for being “an unconstitutional affront to the Second Amendment.”

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker last year signed the Protect Illinois Communities Act (PICA), which banned hundreds of types of guns including semi-automatic firearms. It also banned large-capacity magazines along with various gun accessories and attachments. Another provision required taxpayers who already owned such firearms to put their names in a state registry. The law was reportedly passed in response to a mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park in 2022. 

But on Friday, US District Judge Stephen McGlynn issued a permanent injunction against the law, including the gun ban and the registry. He ruled that PICA is “unconstitutional under the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution as applied to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment.”

In his ruling, Judge McGlynn wrote a scathing criticism of the elite class and its relentless crusade t…