Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, an outspoken defender of Second Amendment rights, made a fiery response to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to uphold Illinois' assault weapons ban.
The federal appeals court on Friday upheld Illinois' state ban on assault-style weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines in a two-to-one vote by a three-judge panel.
"The 7th Circuit seems to think AR-15s are not protected by the Second Amendment. The Supreme Court is going to have something to say about that one," Boebert said in a post shared on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday."'Shall not be infringed doesn't have an asterisk."
"As we know from long experience with other fundamental rights, such as the right to free speech, the right peaceably to assemble, the right to vote, and the right to free exercise of religion, even the most important personal freedoms have their limits," Judge Diane Wood said on November 3.
"Government may punish a deliberately false fire alarm, it may condition free assembly on the issuance of a permit, it may require voters to present a valid identification card, and it may punish child abuse even if it is done in the name of religion. The right enshrined in the Second Amendment is no different."
Opponents challenged the ban on the grounds that it violated the Second Amendment and Americans' rights to "keep and bear arms."
Boebert has lashed out against calls for more firearm restrictions and said in an October 27 X post: "I'm not going to be lectured about gun safety by people who think the 'AR' in AR-15 stands for 'assault rifle.'"