Guns Owners Challenge Illinois Law Restricting Concealed Carry

An Illinois law that prevents most nonresidents from getting a license to conceal carry guns within the state violates gun owners’ constitutional rights, a new lawsuit claims.

There is no avenue for many nonresidents to carry a gun in public within the state of Illinois because it “generally bans the bearing of arms without a license” and doesn’t “grant reciprocity to any other state’s license to carry,” Second Amendment advocacy organizations and two gun owners said in a Friday complaint filed to the ...