Michael Moore v. Lisa Madigan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · No. 12-1269 · 708 F.3d 901
👍Favorable to gun rights
Majority ruled against Illinois's public-carry ban; holding reconstructed from the dissent, the only opinion in the excerpt.
GunMapUSA assessment of the outcome's direction, not a statement that the court decided rightly or wrongly.
What the court held
Illinois generally prohibited carrying ready-to-use firearms in public, and gun owners argued the Second Amendment protects public carry for self-defense; two district courts had upheld the law. The Seventh Circuit majority read Heller and McDonald to extend the right to bear arms beyond the home and rejected the State's historical defense of the ban, ruling against Illinois. Judge Williams dissented, arguing the founding-era record did not establish a general right to carry ready-to-use arms in public and that she would have affirmed the district courts.
Summarized from the court's opinion.
Key Dates
- 2013-02-22 — Decided
Sources
- CourtListener — retrieved 2026-08-08
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