Robert Bevis v. City of Naperville
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · No. 23-1353
👎Unfavorable to gun rights
left the bans in force and dissolved the one injunction against them, at the preliminary injunction stage
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What the court held
Illinois's Protect Illinois Communities Act, along with Naperville, Chicago, and Cook County ordinances, bans the sale and possession of a defined set of assault weapons and large-capacity magazines. In consolidated appeals the Seventh Circuit concluded the state and municipalities have a strong likelihood of success, reasoning that the regulated weapons fall on the military side of the line between military arms and the personal weapons the Second Amendment protects. The court affirmed the denials of preliminary injunctions and vacated the injunction one district court had entered against the Act; Judge Brennan dissented.
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What this case is about
Naperville and Illinois bans on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines
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Key Dates
- 2023-11-03 — Decided
- 2023-06-29 — Argued
Sources
- CourtListener — retrieved 2026-08-08
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