The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the challenges gun laws in Delaware and Maryland.
The justices rejected a call from a group of gun enthusiasts and firearms groups in Delaware to block the state’s ban on assault rifles and large-capacity ammunition magazines after a lower court declined to issue a preliminary injunction against the ban.
Delaware’s gun safety laws went into effect in 2022 and ban several semi-automatic long firearms, including the AR-15 and AK47, although it allows those who owned such weapons before the law was enacted to keep the firearms under certain conditions. according to Reuters.
The Supreme Courtwhich has a 6-3 conservative majority, also declined to hear a case questioning Maryland’s handgun licensing requirements, which require people to receive safety training, submit fingerprints and undergo a background check before purchasing a gun.
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The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear challenges to gun laws in Delaware and Maryland. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images, file)
The challengers argued that the gun law violates the Second Amendment because it makes it too difficult for people to obtain guns.
The justices rejected a call from a group of gun enthusiasts and firearms groups in Delaware to block the state’s ban on assault rifles and large-capacity ammunition magazines. (REUTERS/George Frey, file)
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The law was passed after the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, where 20 first-graders and six teachers were killed.
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A three-judge panel of the appeals court later struck down the law following a landmark 2022 Supreme Court ruling that said it expanded gun rights and that firearms laws must have strong roots in the country’s historical traditions, though the entire 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals later revived the law. after the majority found it fits within historic firearms regulations.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
