Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Illinois Ban on Carrying Guns on Public Transit

The U.S. Supreme Court on April 6 rejected a group of Illinois residents’ challenge to a state law banning firearms on public transportation. The justices denied the petition in Schoenthal v. Raoul in an unsigned order. The court did not explain its decision. No justices dissented. The challengers cited the Supreme Court’s landmark 2022 decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. In that case, the court found New York’s restrictive handgun licensing law violated the Second Amendment. The ruling affirmed the right to carry firearms in public for self-defense, and created a legal test requiring that gun laws be consistent with the nation’s “historical tradition of firearm regulation” to survive constitutional scrutiny....