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Best of: Gun owners and advocates decry new ban as unconstitutional

Produced by Jose Zepeda and Brian Mackey
 
Assault style weapons are displayed for sale at Capitol City Arms Supply on Jan. 16, 2013, in Springfield, Ill. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul on Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, asked a state appellate court to dismiss a temporary restraining order on Illinois' new ban on semiautomatic weapons. The two-week-old law was adopted in response to the 2022 mass shooting at the July 4th parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park.

Assault style weapons are displayed for sale at Capitol City Arms Supply on Jan. 16, 2013, in Springfield, Ill. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul on Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, asked a state appellate court to dismiss a temporary restraining order on Illinois' new ban on semiautomatic weapons. The two-week-old law was adopted in response to the 2022 mass shooting at the July 4th parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park. Seth Perlman/AP Photo, File

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As quickly as Illinois' assault weapons ban became law, it faced controversy among gun-rights advocates, saying the bill was unconstitutional and it penalizes gun-owners abiding by the law. A majority of sheriffs across the state have come out and said they will not enforce the ban.  

For the second part of the show, we were joined by opponents of the law to get their takes on its constitutionality and continue our discussion of the ban.

This conversation originally aired Jan. 25, 2023.

GUESTS:

Kourtney Redmond

Club President, 761st Gun Club

Todd Vandermyde 

Former NRA lobbyist, still active in gun-rights issues

 

 

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