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US Supreme Court lets Illinois assault weapon ban stand - for now (www.bbc.com)

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The US Supreme Court has declined to put a temporary hold on an Illinois law that bans the sale of assault-style weapons and a variety of other guns and accessories.

The law will require existing owners of the restricted items to register them by 1 January.

A gun rights group and the owner of a gun shop have sued to stop the implementation of the law.

Their case has consistently been rebuffed by lower courts.

The legislation took effect in January and sales of the restricted guns were stopped immediately.

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[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That honestly sounds like something you call the appropriate contact for if you are that concerned. But considering the context is

           (xiii) All Thompson types, including the
        	
following:
                (I) Thompson TA510D.
                (II) Thompson TA5.
            (xiv) All UZI types, including Micro-UZI.

It seems fairly obvious they are referring to the Uzi submachine gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzi and semiautomatic (con)versions of it.

I do agree this is not worded well. But it is also trivial to get confirmed and either keep a printed out official document in your gun safe or register your pistol anyway.

Which is how most laws like this work. Dealing with export control and similar laws is also a giant headache where you sometimes have an over specified or vague clause that just means you send an email/write a letter and keep the response on file.

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