Gun rights groups ask Supreme Court to rule on sweeping Maryland firearm ban lower bench upheld
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Second Amendment groups are calling on the Supreme Court to hear a case challenging Maryland's semiautomatic rifle ban, after a circuit court upheld it this month.
That decision, written by Reagan-appointed Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, said the Old Line State’s ban on certain semi-automatic rifles and pistols "fits comfortably within our nation’s tradition of firearms regulation." Two residents of Baltimore County, Md., and one from Anne Arundel County first filed suit against Maryland in 2021. Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
The California-based Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and Washington State-based Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed petitions for certiorari, asking the Supreme Court to make a superseding ruling on the Fourth Circuit’s decision. He joined Fox News in 2013 as a writer and production assistant.
SAF founder Alan Gottlieb said the appeals bench is trying to flip the landmark "Heller" decision nixing the District of Columbia’s gun ban "on its head." Charles covers media, politics and culture for Fox News Digital.
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