SPRINGFIELD (WGEM) – Bump stocks remain illegal in Illinois despite there no longer being a federal ban on the assault weapon attachment.

The June 14 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning a U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms regulation banning bump stocks only applies to that federal regulation. The justices ruled the ATF overstepped its authority in banning bump stocks. The decision did not speak to states’ bans like the one in Illinois.

“I do think it’s going to spur action at the state level as well as the federal level to try to, once again, ban bump stocks. Here in Illinois, we’ve already done that. We do not need to take action here to fill in what the Supreme Court has taken away from other states,” said Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, the day of the high court ruling.

Through the ATF, the Trump administration banned bump stocks in 2017 following the deadly Las Vegas mass shooting in which the shooter used them to make his semi-automatic weapons act like fully-automatic guns.

Illinois banned the assault weapons and assault weapon attachments, including bump stocks, when Pritzker signed the Protect Illinois Communities Act in 2023. That law has been challenged in both state and federal court. Though the Illinois state Supreme Court and a federal appeals court have let the law stand, U.S. Supreme Court is deciding whether to take a case challenging the ban.

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