Several Naperville residents and members of the National Association for Gun Rights made pleas to newly elected City Council members to drop the city’s assault rifles sales ban being challenged in federal court.
until Monday to respond to an emergency injunction request filed by the gun rights association and a Naperville gun shop owner, who jointly filed a lawsuit to overturn the ban as unconstitutional.Robert Bevis, owner of Law Weapons & Supply, says the ban is putting him out of business and wants it temporarily lifted until the case is settled in court. A federal judge refused to overturn the ban in February and now the case is working its way through the federal appellate court.
With the April election, there is a new mayor and three new council members, none of whom voted on the assault weapons ordinance.
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