Gun shop owners reported a huge increase in sales after the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois issued an injunction against the enforcement of a firearm ban.
by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois on a gun law had a massive impact on local gun sales, shop owners reported on Saturday.
McGlynn ruled that the law, which was signed in January,"did not just regulate the rights of the people to defend themselves; it restricted that right, and in some cases, completely obliterated that right by criminalizing the purchase and the sale of more than 190 'arms.'"A bill signed into law in January restricted the possession of some semiautomatic weapons."Within 15 minutes, we had people coming in," said Roger Krahl, owner of RGuns in Carpentersville.
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