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Federal appeals court upholds Illinois ban on semiautomatic weapons, overturning lower-court ruling

Federal appeals court upholds Illinois ban on semiautomatic weapons, overturning lower-court ruling
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A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld an Illinois ban on semiautomatic weapons, keeping in place a law passed largely in response to a deadly Independence Day parade shooting. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit overturns a lower court decision that found the ban...

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