Supreme Court Won’t Hear Challenge to Illinois Ban on ‘Assault Weapons,’ Other Gun Appeals

Published on July 2, 2024

The Supreme Court declined on July 2 to take up several Second Amendment-based challenges to gun laws, including a lawsuit about an Illinois law that prohibits so-called assault weapons such as the AR-15 rifle. The decision came in a long list of orders in ongoing cases that the court issued the day after it finished delivering opinions in all the argued cases for the 2023-2024 term. The justices now head off to their summer recess. The Court will resume hearing cases on the first Monday in October. Justice Clarence Thomas filed a statement saying he would have granted the petition for certiorari, or review, in the Illinois case known as Harrel v. Raoul. No other justices dissented. At least four of the nine justices must vote to grant a petition for it to advance....

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