(-) Supreme Court Delivers Key Ruling In Firearms Case

In this way, the Court avoided dealing with two important cases involving gun rights. A group of gun owners and gun rights groups tried to appeal to the justices, but they turned them down. They wanted to stop Delaware’s ban on “assault weapons” and magazines that can hold more than 17 rounds.

The ruling was after a lower court decided not to issue a preliminary injunction.

These kinds of guns have been used in several mass shootings in the U. S. , but FBI crime statistics indicate that handguns are used in the vast majority of gun-related murders.