The state has a preemption law in place, but Deerfield went forward with an AWB and prohibition against ownership ordinance with provisions for confiscation as well as fining owners daily for having what they classify as an "assault weapon" so SAF, ISRA , and a member of the community have sued Deerfield.
We should be financially supporting SAF and their partners in their legal battles against all of the AWB locals. I intend to send $50 to them for this and I encourage all of you to to send something, anything, as well as earmark your Amazon sales for donations to SAF.
https://www.saf.org/saf-lawsuit-challenges-gun-ban-in-chicago-suburb-of-deerfield/
We should be financially supporting SAF and their partners in their legal battles against all of the AWB locals. I intend to send $50 to them for this and I encourage all of you to to send something, anything, as well as earmark your Amazon sales for donations to SAF.
https://www.saf.org/saf-lawsuit-challenges-gun-ban-in-chicago-suburb-of-deerfield/
The lawsuit challenges the village ban under a 2013 amended state statute that declared “the regulation of the possession or ownership of assault weapons are exclusive powers and functions of this State. Any ordinance or regulation, or portion of that ordinance or regulation, that purports to regulate the possession or ownership of assault weapons in a manner that is inconsistent with this Act, shall be invalid…”
“We moved swiftly to challenge this gun ban because it flies in the face of state law,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “While the village is trying to disguise this as an amendment to an existing ordinance, it is, in fact, a new law that entirely bans possession of legally-owned semi-auto firearms, with no exception for guns previously owned, or any provision for self-defense.
“The new ordinance also provides for confiscation and destruction of such firearms and their original capacity magazines,” he added. “What is particularly outrageous about this new law is that it levies fines of up to $1,000 a day against anyone who refuses to turn in their gun and magazines or move them out of the village by the time the ordinance takes effect in June. This certainly puts the lie to claims by anti-gunners that ‘nobody is coming to take your guns.’”