Waiting for word from the Seventh Circuit — here's where our case stands

AURORA, IL — Here's the news: There's no major breaking news in our fight against Illinois' PICA ban today, but that doesn't mean nothing's happening.

Where we stand right now

Our case, Bevis v. City of Naperville, remains consolidated with the other challenges to Illinois' rifle and magazine ban at the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. The judges heard arguments back in September, and we're still waiting for their decision.

From behind the counter at Law Weapons, customers ask me the same question every day: "When will we know?" The honest answer is that federal appeals courts move on their own timeline. But I can tell you this — the arguments were strong, the constitutional questions are clear, and we have every reason to be confident.

What we're watching for

When the Seventh Circuit does rule, it will affect every gun owner in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. If they strike down PICA — and the Constitution demands they should — it opens the door to challenging every similar ban across the circuit.

The State keeps trying to pretend that commonly-owned rifles and standard-capacity magazines somehow fall outside Second Amendment protection. That argument didn't work at the Supreme Court level in Bruen, and it shouldn't work here either. A firearm that can't function as designed isn't a meaningful right.

What this means for my customers

Until we get that ruling, Illinois gun owners are still living under an unconstitutional law. But we're not sitting idle. Every day we stay in business, every customer we serve, every constitutional argument we make in court — it all adds up to the same thing: refusing to roll over when government oversteps its bounds.

Law Weapons didn't relocate from Naperville to Aurora just to watch from the sidelines. We moved here to keep fighting, keep serving customers, and keep making the case that the Second Amendment means what it says.

We keep watching. We keep fighting. And we keep serving the people who refuse to be treated like second-class citizens for exercising a constitutional right.

— Robert Bevis, Law Weapons & Supply