The law, which was passed after the Sandy Hook school shooting, bans dozens of firearms — including AR-15s, AK-47s and the Barrett .50-caliber sniper rifle — and puts a 10-round limit on magazines.
Three variations of the AR-15 assault rifle are displayed at the California Department of Justice in 2012. A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld Maryland's decade-old ban on military-style firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons.
The Firearms Policy Coalition Inc., one of the plaintiffs challenging Maryland's law, said it would again ask the Supreme Court to review the case. The weapons banned by Maryland's law fall outside Second Amendment protection because they are essentially military-style weapons"designed for sustained combat operations that are ill-suited and disproportionate to the need for self-defense," Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III wrote in the court's majority opinion."Moreover, the Maryland law fits comfortably within our nation's tradition of firearms regulation," Wilkinson wrote.
"The Second Amendment is not a second-class right subject to the whimsical discretion of federal judges. Its mandate is absolute and, applied here, unequivocal," Richardson wrote. The latest challenge to the assault weapons ban comes under consideration following a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision that"effected a sea change in Second Amendment law." That 6-3 decision signified a major expansion of gun rights following a series of mass shootings.
"Put simply, we have no power to extend Second Amendment protections to weapons of war," Judge Robert King wrote for the court in that majority opinion, calling the law"precisely the type of judgment that legislatures are allowed to make without second-guessing by a court."
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