CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS — New permanent rules will soon go into effect governing how people can register their assault weapons and related equipment with the Illinois State Police.

Capitol News Illinois reports the legislature’s Joint Committee on Administrative Rules agreed today (Tuesday) to let those rules go into effect despite issuing a symbolic objection.

Illinois lawmakers passed a ban on assault weapons and related equipment last year in the wake of a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park in 2022.

Under that law, people who already owned such items before the ban are allowed to keep them, but they must register those items as part of their Firearm Owner’s Identification card with the Illinois State Police.

State Senator Bill Cunningham, of Chicago, who co-chairs the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules is discouraging people from taking action to defy the state’s assault weapons ban registry.

The new, permanent rules will replace temporary rules that have been in place since October.

A legal challenge to the assault weapons ban is expected to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court within the next several weeks.

I-S-P previously agreed to make a few changes to the rules to satisfy issues raised by gun rights advocates.