Illinois ban on high-powered firearms blocked by federal judge downstate
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A federal judge in southern Illinois on Friday issued an injunction blocking enforcement of the state's new ban on many higher-powered firearms and large-capacity ammunition magazines, just days after a counterpart in Chicago ruled the opposite way.The ruling came in a case that consolidated lawsuits brought by a variety of groups, including the Illinois State Rifle Association, against the law passed in the Democratic-controlled General Assembly and signed by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker in January in response to the deadly mass shooting at last year's Fourth of July parade in north suburban Highland Park.
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