"We moved swiftly to challenge this gun ban because it flies in the face of state law," said Alan Gottlieb, founder and executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation in a statement. "While the village is trying to disguise this as an amendment to an existing ordinance, it is, in fact, a new law that entirely bans possession of legally-owned, semi-automatic firearms, with no exception for guns previously owned, or any provision for self-defense."