The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear major challenges to bans on AR-15-style rifles, including Cook County’s assault weapons ban. The consolidated cases could deliver a serious blow to Governor Pritzker’s 2023 gun control law that targets law-abiding citizens across our state.
Radical Democrats like Pritzker have spent years trampling the Second Amendment. They push unconstitutional restrictions on commonly owned firearms while violent criminals ignore every law already on the books. Their real goal isn’t public safety — it’s disarming honest, law-abiding citizens in Illinois who want to exercise their constitutional rights.
I have always stood strong with law-abiding gun owners. These broad bans do nothing to stop real criminals and everything to erode our God-given rights as Americans.
The Supreme Court now has the chance to restore the Constitution and reject these radical power grabs. I will keep working in the Senate to protect our Second Amendment rights and shut down Pritzker’s anti-gun agenda for good.
