The states are supporting a challenge to Maryland’s Firearms Safety Act of 2013
FIRST ON FOX: Arizona and West Virginia are leading a group of 25 states urging the Supreme Court to hear a case challenging Maryland’s strict firearms law.
“Americans do not require approval from a local jurisdiction to exercise their constitutional rights,” Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said in a press release. “We must vigorously oppose this type of misguided overreach at all levels of government.”
The 25 states are urging the Supreme Court to hear Bianchi v. Frosh, which challenges Maryland’s Firearms Safety Act of 2013. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld the Maryland law in September, prompting the appeal to the Supreme Court.
Maryland’s 2013 law is one of the strictest in the country, requiring that residents undergo safety training and fingerprinting before being granted a license to buy a pistol. It also attempts to define assault weapons, banning the sale of firearms such as the AR-15 and similar rifles while also restricting magazine capacity to 10 rounds of ammunition.
The law also bans firearms with features the 25 states argue actually serve to enhance gun safety, including folding stocks and flash hiders.
Other states joining Arizona and West Virginia include Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming.
They argue that the Maryland law compromises “the Second Amendment rights of millions of citizens” and bans firearms that “benefit public safety, counterbalance the threat of illegal gun violence and help make our streets safer.”
A legal brief cites the 2008 landmark District of Columbia v. Heller case, which resulted in the Supreme Court ruling that individuals unconnected to military service or a militia had the right to possess firearms for lawful purposes, arguing that the ruling should be clarified to extend to sporting rifles in “common use.”
A Maryland CCP is like the mythical unicorn 🦄….very few of us have one
Where’s Boss Hogg on this issue? He wants to be Prez and 25 states are showing backbone on this matter, so where is he?
My trust is in Mike Lewis and our Sheriffs Office not the state, Governor, or Barbara & the SPD.