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07-29-2013, 07:19 PM
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A federal judge has rejected a push by gun rights advocates to let Illinois residents immediately tote firearms in public instead of waiting months for the state to outline the permitting process under its new concealed carry law.
U.S. District Judge William Stiehl on Friday threw out the lawsuit filed in East St. Louis by Mary Shepard and the Illinois State Rifle Association, siding with Illinois in ruling the suit moot.
Under the last-in-the-nation concealed carry law, passed by the General Assembly July 9 against Gov. Pat Quinn's vehement objections, Illinois State Police have 180 days to set up a program before accepting applications, plus an additional 90 days to process the forms.
Shepard, in court filings, called such a delay unreasonable and insisted it "constitutes an unacceptable perpetuation of the defendants' infringement of the Second Amendment rights." While noting she wasn't challenging elements of the new permitting process, Shepard said her issue was over "the complete ban on carrying firearms that continues to exist until the permitting process is up and running."
But Stiehl's 10-page ruling agreed with the position of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's office: Challenging the legality of the span state police have to set up the program would require Shepard and the state rifle group to file a new complaint spelling out why such a wait is onerous or illegal.
http://news.yahoo.com/federal-judge-now-throws-roadblock-those-illinois-looking-190621722.html
U.S. District Judge William Stiehl on Friday threw out the lawsuit filed in East St. Louis by Mary Shepard and the Illinois State Rifle Association, siding with Illinois in ruling the suit moot.
Under the last-in-the-nation concealed carry law, passed by the General Assembly July 9 against Gov. Pat Quinn's vehement objections, Illinois State Police have 180 days to set up a program before accepting applications, plus an additional 90 days to process the forms.
Shepard, in court filings, called such a delay unreasonable and insisted it "constitutes an unacceptable perpetuation of the defendants' infringement of the Second Amendment rights." While noting she wasn't challenging elements of the new permitting process, Shepard said her issue was over "the complete ban on carrying firearms that continues to exist until the permitting process is up and running."
But Stiehl's 10-page ruling agreed with the position of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's office: Challenging the legality of the span state police have to set up the program would require Shepard and the state rifle group to file a new complaint spelling out why such a wait is onerous or illegal.
http://news.yahoo.com/federal-judge-now-throws-roadblock-those-illinois-looking-190621722.html