Oh, stop being silly.

1. Guns have always been legal in Illinois. You have needed a Firearm Owners Identification Card (FOID), but gun ownership has always been legal. This has been in place for about forty years now.

2. Carrying concealed weapons has been illegal. That's what the case was about.

3. The Seventh Circuit ruled 2-1, with Proser writing the opinion for the Court. Seventh Circuit is not often overruled by the Supremes.

4. Concealed carry was illegal primarily because Chicago didn't want it.

5. Illinois law on the subject was going down anyway, if for no other reason than the "full faith and credence" clause of the Constitution -- the same reason the gay marriage bans will be going down.

6. Illinois has 180 days to craft a new law.

And if you think I don't know what I'm talking about -- I lived and owned guns in Illinois for the first quarter-century of my life, and my brother (retired from the State Police) still lives there.