Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Second Amendment
Defendant appealed from his conviction for being an armed habitual criminal arguing, among other things that the provisions of the aggravated unlawful use of a weapon statute are unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. The appellate court affirmed, finding that the State presented sufficient evidence to support defendant’s conviction as an armed habitual criminal, that the defendant failed to rebut the constitutionality of the AUUW statute, and that he failed to establish that the armed habitual criminal statute violated the second amendment under the new test for gun relations set forth in Bruen. (TAILOR and GAMRATH, concurring)