(WSIL) -- The Protect Illinois Communities Act remains law but one gun rights group plans to file an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court for the second straight year.
The Illinois State Rifle Association plans to rewrite an appeal by March in order to hear a decision by the high courts in June.
"It's an unenforceable law," said Richard Pearson, the association's executive director.
Pearson is hopeful his appeal will reach the Supreme Court despite ruling Monday that it would not take up a petition filed by State Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) that would reverse the Illinois Supreme Court's ruling upholding the ban.
Caulkins' argues that the state's high courts shouldn't have ruled in the case, specifically calling out justices and .
each received $1 million from Gov. JB Pritzker and his campaign according to research from the nonpartisan group Reform For Illinois. O'Brien and Rochford won their respective races in 2022 giving Democrats a 5-2 edge on the state bench.
Pearson believes SCOTUS dropped the case because they argued on the basis of procedure and not constitutionality. 8,143 of Illinois' 2,415,481聽FOID card owners have registered weapons or accessories in the ban, or 0.3%.
"If you pass laws that can't be enforced then you lose credibility as a government," Pearson said. "It's not like we had a lot to spend anyway but we lost more."
