Piasa Armory, LLC v. Raoul

What the court held

Piasa Armory, a Madison County firearms dealer, sued in its home county challenging the Illinois Firearm Industry Responsibility Act on preemption, vagueness, Second Amendment, and state constitutional grounds, and the circuit court held the state venue statute channeling such suits to Sangamon or Cook County unconstitutional as applied. The Illinois Supreme Court reversed, holding that venue is a procedural matter within the legislature's province and that this venue provision did not deprive the dealer of due process. The court did not address the dealer's challenges to the Act itself; a dissenting justice would have invalidated the venue provision under the state constitution's three-readings rule.

Summarized from the court's opinion.

What this case is about

Second Amendment and vagueness challenge to the Illinois Firearm Industry Responsibility Act

GunMapUSA summary of the issue, not a quotation from the court.

Key Dates

• 2025-04-24 — Decided

Sources

• CourtListener — retrieved 2026-08-08