The Supreme Courtroom on Thursday declined to placed on maintain a brand new Illinois legislation prohibiting the possession, manufacture or sale of semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines, refusing an emergency attraction from a gun rights group and others, the Associated Press reports. The Shield Illinois Communities Act bans dozens of particular manufacturers or kinds of rifles and handguns, together with the favored AR-15, .50-caliber weapons, attachments and rapid-firing gadgets. No rifle shall be allowed to accommodate greater than 10 rounds, with a 15-round restrict for handguns. Those that owned such weapons and equipment when the legislation was enacted should register them, together with serial numbers, with the Illinois State Police. The legislation has beforehand been upheld in latest months by each the Illinois Supreme Courtroom and the seventh District U.S. Courtroom of Appeals.
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