An appeals court has refused a gun group’s plea to block the state’s firearm licensing law.The Springfield-based 4th District Appellate Court this week denied a preliminary injunction alleging the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act violates the Second Amendment and similar language in the Illinois Constitution. However, the panel wrote the plaintiffs, a nonprofit called Guns Save Life Inc., raised fair questions about the law, including that it has few counterparts in other states and that it arguably goes against …