Concealed carry penalties
Williams v. Illinois
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Jerry Williams’s filing asks whether courts must use the Supreme Court’s two-step historical test from Bruen when deciding if criminal penalties connected to Illinois’s concealed-carry licensing system are constitutional.
- Who it affects
- Williams received no Supreme Court answer on whether Bruen’s test applies to those penalties.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
Williams’s filing asked whether Bruen’s two-step historical test also applies to criminal penalties connected to a state’s “shall issue” concealed-carry licensing system.
Question presented
Does New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1, 38 n.9 (2022), require courts to apply Bruen’s mandated two-step historical analysis to determine the constitutionality of criminal penalties related to a state’s “shall issue” concealed carry licensing regime?
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