(-) Supreme Court Delivers Key Ruling In Firearms Case

The gun rights group Maryland Shall Issue and other plaintiffs also appealed, but the justices did not hear it

They were contesting a lower court’s ruling that the state’s licensing law aligned with the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear weapons.

The justices chose not to hear these two cases, but they also left unaddressed two other appeals against Maryland’s ban on assault weapons and one in Rhode Island against the state’s ban on large-capacity magazines.

With a 6-3 conservative majority, the Supreme Court has always taken an “originalist” view of gun rights in major decisions going back to 2008.