It looks like we might have got our hopes up for no reason.

Earlier this year a judge in Illinois blocked a portion of an "assault weapon" ban in Illinois, and we said we wanted the case to go all the way to the Supreme Court.

Unfortunately, this week the Supreme Court decided not to hear the case against what conservative and Second Amendment activists call an unconstitutional gun ban.

On Wednesday, Justice Amy Coney Barrett turned down a request from Republican state Rep. Dan Caulkins of Decatur and other gun rights advocates who lost their challenge to the law earlier this year at the Illinois Supreme Court.

And on Thursday, the full court issued an unsigned order denying a similar request for an injunction by the National Association for Gun Rights, one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging both the statewide ban and a local ban in the city of Naperville.

This is a very disappointing and baffling result from the courts, and it's very disappointing that Amy Coney Barrett did not take the opportunity to uphold the Second Amendment rights for Illinoisans.

However, there is the possibility of a future, more broad suit against the entire ban making it to the Supreme Court.

NAGR filed its request Nov. 29 while it was waiting for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to decide whether it would reconsider its earlier decision upholding the law as constitutional. But the 7th Circuit said Monday it would not reconsider that decision.

Because of that, NAGR said this week it is now preparing to ask the Supreme Court for a full review of the law.

Maybe, just maybe, the Supreme Court was holding out for this other case that would result in a full review of the law, instead of the current partial challenges.

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