Published July 24, 2026 at 5:29 PM ET · Updated July 24, 2026 at 6:20 PM ET
Peoria attorney battles county over gun seizure in court
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A Peoria attorney is engaged in a legal dispute with a county over the seizure of firearms. The case is being litigated in court.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
Rahimi held that when a court finds an individual poses a credible threat to another's physical safety, temporarily disarming that person is consistent with the Second Amendment. Bruen requires the government to justify any firearm seizure by demonstrating consistency with the Nation's historical tradition of regulation. Whether this seizure stands turns on that historical showing.
United States v. Zackey Rahimi 602 U.S. 680 (2024)
Vote: 8-1 · Opinion: Roberts (C.J.)
When an individual has been found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another, that individual may be temporarily disarmed consistent with the Second Amendment. 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(8), which bars firearm possession by persons subject to a domestic-violence restraining order containing such a judicial finding, is facially constitutional. The Court grounded the statute in the combined tradition of surety laws and 'going armed' laws, which permitted preventing individuals who threaten physical harm to others from misusing firearms.
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Kevin P. Bruen, Superintendent of New York State Police 597 U.S. 1 (2022)
Vote: 6-3 · Opinion: Thomas
New York's requirement that applicants demonstrate 'proper cause' — a special need for self-protection distinguishable from the general community — to obtain an unrestricted public-carry license violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in public. The Court held the Second Amendment protects a right to carry handguns publicly for self-defense, and rejected the two-step means-end framework lower courts had applied after Heller.
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