CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Judge throws out Deerfield’s assault weapons ban. “Judge Luis Berrones issued a permanent injunction blocking the village from enforcing its ordinance. In the ruling, Berrones wrote that the plaintiff gun owners have ‘a clearly ascertainable right to not be subjected to a preempted and unenforceable ordinance’ that prohibits possession of assault weapons, imposes financial penalties for keeping them and allows their property to be confiscated.”