The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday upheld an Illinois law that banned the carrying of firearms on public transit, effectively overturning a lower court decision that found the ban unconstitutional under the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.

The Illinois law prohibits the carrying of firearms in a variety of settings, such as in schools, daycare facilities, government and court buildings, playgrounds, and on public transportation. Judge Joshua Kolar wrote that the law did not contravene the Second Amendment:

[T]he challenged law is comfortably situated in a centuries-old practice of limiting firearms in sensitive and crowded, confined places. The Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to self-defense. It does not bar the people’s representati

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