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LAW REVIEW
In Soloman v. Cook County Board of Commissioners, the plaintiff challenged a state law
and a forest preserve ordinance that prevented concealed carry license holders from
carrying concealed weapons in the Forest Preserve District of Cook County.
Forest Preserve Gun Ban Second
Amendment Challenge
By James C. Kozlowski, J.D., Ph.D.
I
n the case of Solomon v. Cook County Board of Commissioners, 2021 U.S.
Dist. LEXIS 173175 (E.D. Ill. 9/13/2021), Plaintiff Simon Solomon
challenged a state law and a forest preserve ordinance that prevented
concealed carry license holders from carrying concealed weapons in
the Forest Preserve District of Cook County (FPDCC) in Illinois.
The Illinois Firearm Concealed
Carry Act (the Act) expressly prohibited
the concealed carry of a
firearm on or into any real property
under the control of the Cook
County Forest Preserve District.
430 ILCS 66/65(a)(14) (Section
65(a)(14)). The
Illinois
General
Assembly did not extend this prohibition
to any other county forest
preserve district in the state.
In pertinent part, Section 65(a)
(14) of the Act prohibited any
" licensee " from " carrying a con28
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cealed firearm into the parking
area of a prohibited location, " including
FPDCC property. A concealed
firearm could, however, be
carried into the parking area as
long as the individual " stores the
firearm or ammunition concealed
in a case within a locked vehicle or
locked container out of plain view
within the vehicle in the parking
area. " 430 ILCS 66/65(b).
FPDCC
Ordinance
3-3-6
prohibited concealed carry licensed
holders from knowingly carrying a
firearm on or into FPDCC property.
Between July 13, 2011 and August
31, 2018, there were 16,741 violations
of various ordinances within the
FPDCC; 226 of those violations were
categorized as weapons violations.
Plaintiff Solomon, a 63-year-old
Cook County resident, had been
visiting properties owned by the
Forest Preserve District of Cook
County (FPDCC) for about 40
years. Plaintiff also is a firearm
owner and obtained his
concealed carry license
included
Illinois
(CCL)
approximately five years ago. The
process
completing
a
paper application and attending a
16-hour, two-day class.
On April 30, 2015, Plaintiff
stopped at his usual fishing location

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