The U.S. Supreme Court's denial of state Rep. Dan Caulkins' request for review was issued without comment and comes less than a month after Justice Amy Coney Barrett declined to put the law on hold ahead of a Jan. 1 deadline for gun owners to register banned weapons they owned before the law took effect on Jan. 10, 2023.
In the Caulkins case, the Democratic-controlled Illinois Supreme Court ruled 4-3 in August that the gun ban does not violate the state constitution's equal protection clause by creating exemptions for certain trained professionals, such as retired police officers, and for people who owned the now-banned firearms at the time the law took effect last year.
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