https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-denies-challenges-state-laws-banning-assault-style-weapo-rcna187702

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear two major gun cases challenging a Maryland law that bans assault-style weapons, including the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle that has been used in high-profile mass shootings, and a Rhode Island restriction on large-capacity magazines.

As a result, the two laws remain in effect. Litigation over similar bans across the country is ongoing, and the issue is likely to return to the justices.

Janet Carter, a lawyer at gun control group Everytown Law, welcomed the developments in both cases.

“Courts of appeals across the country have consistently and correctly upheld laws like these — with countless communities safer as a result,” she said in a statement.

The Firearms Policy Coalition, a gun rights group that was among those challenging the Maryland law, issued a statement saying it was “disappointed that some members of the Supreme Court did not have the judicial courage to do their most important job and enforce the Constitution.”

The group called on the Trump administration to support gun rights activists in future cases.

The court has a 6-3 conservative majority that has expanded gun rights but has also shown a reluctance in recent months to take up a new case on the scope of the right to bear arms under the Constitution's Second Amendment.

It seems likely the court will take up the assault weapons issue soon, with three conservative justices saying they voted to take it up and another, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, saying he would like the justices to hear a case on the issue in the next couple of years.

Four votes are needed for the court to hear a case.

Kavanaugh wrote in a separate statement that the ruling that upheld the Maryland ban is "questionable" under the court's recent precedents, adding that "in my view, this court should and presumably will address the AR-15 issue soon."

He noted that millions of Americans own AR-15s, making Maryland’s ban “something of an outlier.”

The court in a major 2022 ruling expanded gun rights by finding for the first time that the right to bear arms extends outside the home.

That has led to a wave of both new restrictions being imposed in some states and court rulings that have struck down some long-standing gun laws. Both these developments have led to a flurry of appeals at the court asking the justices to clarify the scope of the 2022 ruling.

Justice Clarence Thomas, who — along with Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch — wanted to hear the Maryland case, wrote a dissenting opinion saying that the Maryland law was most likely not consistent with the 2022 ruling.

"It is difficult to see how Maryland's categorical prohibition on AR-15s passes muster under this framework," he wrote.

The Maryland law bans what the state calls “assault weapons” akin to weapons of war, like the M16 rifle or the AR-15. The measure became law in 2013 in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting, in which 20 children and six adults were killed the previous year.

That law was upheld by the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals before the Supreme Court's 2022. A new set of plaintiffs then filed a lawsuit, and the Supreme Court ordered the appeals court to take a second look at the issue. It reached the same conclusion in an August 2024 ruling.

The Rhode Island law, enacted just before the Supreme Court issued the 2022 ruling, prevents people from possessing magazines that contain more than 10 rounds.

Lower courts, including the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, upheld the ban, which was challenged by four gun owners and a firearms store called Big Bear Hunting and Fishing Supply.

The Supreme Court last July sidestepped multiple gun-related disputes soon after it issued a ruling that upheld a federal law that prohibits people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms.

In a case that did not directly address the right to bear arms, the court on March 26 upheld a Biden administration bid to regulate “ghost gun” kits that can be easily assembled to make firearms.

>Justice Brett Kavanaugh, saying he would like the justices to hear a case on the issue in the next couple of years.

>Kavanaugh wrote in a separate statement that the ruling that upheld the Maryland ban is "questionable" under the court's recent precedents, adding that "in my view, this court should and presumably will address the AR-15 issue soon."

so they will take it up, just not now. The way SCOTUS works, they like to let issues play out first. They want it to go through multiple courts and have multiple opinions before it gets in front of SCOTUS

>>1409425 (OP)
>OP pic
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/30/trump-conviction-anniversary-criminal-record/83883564007/
>Is Donald Trump a convicted felon?
>Yes
Felons can't own guns
Those who threaten terrorist actions don't have the right to own guns
Illegals can't own guns
https://everytownresearch.org/rankings/law/ghost-guns-regulated/
>Ghost guns are do-it-yourself, homemade guns, produced with simple building blocks available online. In May 2021, the federal government proposed a rule that would finally clarify that these parts qualify as traditional firearms, and must be sold with serial numbers and background checks. Several states have also acted, including with requirements that all ghost guns must be reported to officials. The strongest laws also regulate the spread of guns that can be made with 3-D printers
>Which states regulate ghost guns?
>15 states have adopted this policy
>they're illegal in all other states
No unregistered/without serial numbered 'ghost guns' for you, illegals/terrorists/gun schizos

Its nice to see a positive story about SCOTUS properly limiting the second amendment.
I'm surprised gun schizo isn't having a melty in this thread

>>1409517
>>1409529
This bullshit shouldn't even be a case to be fought over in the first place. Stop trying to take away my guns and my 2nd amendment rights, demtards, leftytards, trannytards, the lot of you. Why the fuck do you care about me having guns so much? You're not having shit from me

>>1409531
They're scared of you being free, because that means you can protect yourself.

>>1409531
>trying
Oh, the US legal system doesn't need to try, little schizo: they can. And will. And there's less than nothing you can do about it. Good
>my 2nd amendment rights, demtards, leftytards
>>1409425 (OP)
>The court has a 6-3 conservative majority
Here's your 'Fell For It Again' award. You brought this on yourself, you can't blame anyone else.

>>1409550
I don't believe those were real conservatives. It had to be either controlled opposition at best or even worse, unironic glowniggers with a lifelong autistic dedication to rigging scotus cases and ultimately the constitution down to its core

>>1409558
>I don't believe those were real conservatives
Apparently Trump isn't a real conservative?
He's never held a gun and his default answer to gun solutions is confiscation

>>1409558
Reality doesn't care about your feelings

>>1409561
Trump is a democrat. Democrats have moved so far left that they consider Trump (banned bump stocks) a conservative.

>>1409562
Kiss my cold dead ass body loathsome glowniggur scum

>>1409566
That's hilarious. There hasn't been a real leftist democrat since LBJ.

>>1409531
>Why the fuck do you care about me having guns so much?
Because you're mentally unstable and prone to violent outbursts

>>1409576
they also don't actually have any guns, and can't pass a background check

>>1409577
source?

>>1409566
Weird, his party registration is Republican.

>>1409566
Gun nuts are literally insane. It's as if they just spend all day doing mental gymnastics to protect their hobby despite it being responsible for so many unnecessary deaths, especially among children. Crack addicts are more coherent.

>>1409611
so then why don't you condemn the mentally ill useful idiots that shoot up schools, rather than punishing the rest of us mentally sound, law abiding and responsible gun owners? the useless eaters that glowniggers keep around are the ones actually killing people via school shootings, so fuck off with your commie bullshit

>>1409615
is this supposed to make sense

>>1409615
>law abiding
its hilarious how this schizo serial ban evader somehow thinks they're mentally sound, law abiding, responsible, or an American

>>1409617
i don't speak retard caveman either, but thanks for previewing it

>>1409573
Compare his campaign with Clinton's. He literally ripped of Clinton's "make america great again" slogan and supports the same things Clinton did.
I like listening to commies call him a fascist. Everything is fascism when you're an authoritarian leftwinger, apparently.

>>1409622
you know we're actually american right. you need to lie better than this for us to take you seriously

>>1409622
"America first" was the slogan of the American Nazi Party in the 30s. Fascism is a right wing ideology.

>>1409572
Reality never cared about another schizo retard that made the shittiest OS imaginable, and had his Darwin Award delivered to him by a train, so it'll care less about your feelings, opinions and rights, little laughable lolcow.
>>1409622
>>1409425 (OP)
>The court has a 6-3 conservative majority
Well, an authoritarian rightwinger has ensured the US's legal system has all the power in the world: and you have less than none. For this sorry state of affairs you're in, you can only blame Trump or yourself. Choose wisely.

>>1409625
Fascism evolved from Italian socialism. Your move chudster.

>>1409630
>ESL retard misunderstands words to make a bad faith argument

>>1409630
And a Cheeto Mussolini has ensured the legal system has taken away your rights. So who's to blame, Trump or you that voted for the fascist which ultimately denied you of your rights?

>>1409615
>law abiding
Mentally sound gun owners don't have a problem with gun registration and background checks, because it means the mentally sound who responsibly own and use guns can continue doing so and schizos don't have the right to have them. But then, mentally sound gun owners don't need to even think of owning ghost guns, which are the only way that schizos can have access to such. But as 15 states have made it compulsory for even ghost guns to have registerable serial numbers and background checks for those who want to own such and the other 35 states have made them illegal, what reason do mentally sound Americans want with such inferior 'guns' when there are far superior guns made by manufacturers that make registered firearms such as the Beretta M92, Walther P-99, H&K P7 or the most superior of all: the CZ-75. They're the sane choice.
>15 states imposing serial numbers & background checks on ghost guns
>the other 35 made them illegal
>a schizo that needs her precious 'Ghost Guns' and continually whines about such: if already owning such, why be a Karen about their legality thus need to constantly whine about they being illegal?
Gee, we wonder why?

>>1409636
>Mentally sound gun owners don't have a problem with gun registration and background checks
Until the state who hates you doxxes you to the world like California did.

>>1409637
>So many in California voted for a certain Governator
Can't have been Democrats in California who voted for said Governator who had the letter 'R' after his name.

>>1409637
>Mentally sound gun owners
Those who have done nothing wrong have nothing to fear. Even more reason for only the mentally sound to be allowed to own guns. Only schizos would have a proiblem with that.

>>1409630
Let me guess, you also (incorrectly) think the Nazis were socialist because it's in the name.

>>1409636
>Mentally sound gun owners don't have a problem with gun registration
Other anon already covered it in the post below yours. Both California and New York doxxed gun owners in their states, so there you go.

>and background checks
Which we already do. Criminals aren't getting their guns from Mom and Pop's gun store.

>But then, mentally sound gun owners don't need to even think of owning ghost gun
It's cheaper to build one on your own.

>>1409639
>Can't have been Democrats in California who voted for said Governator who had the letter 'R' after his name.
This happened under Newsom.

>>1409640
>Those who have done nothing wrong have nothing to fear.
Now this looks familiar. Hmmm where have I seen this before... Oh yes, I remember now!
>>1408928

>>1409693
>cheaper
Because schizos can't afford better guns. But now they can't get guns because they're schizos/illegals/felons due to ghost guns needing to be registered/serial numbered in 15 states and are illegal in the other 35. Why can't schizos get a Beretta M92 at least? Because they're poorfag illegals/schizos.
>>1409694
So it was Democrats who mainly voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger? Next you'll be telling us that Democrats voted for Trump, amirite?
>>1409695
Again, those who have done nothing wrong have nothing to fear. Why isn't Scott DeShields Jr afraid of his Anzio 20mm sniper rifle being taken from him?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnOrP8etvGg
Something's clearly afraid or the gun schizo wouldn't be in /news/, needing to be a Karen about 'ghost' guns' and the legal restrictions on ownership/illegality of such as she would be secure in her suppoed 'ownetship' of a 'gun' that is just an airsoft one
If the schizo is so secure in her 'ownership' of firearms, Scott showing us his Barrett M82A1, Solothurn/Lahti 20mm anti-tank rifles and the fact he's an ex-Kentucky State Trooper can't have anything to do with his being secure in his ownership of such superior firepower that makes any AR-15 look like a peashooter, amirite? , so what's the schizo's excuse for not having something far more powerful except for being a poorfag schizo

>>1409699
>Because schizos can't afford better guns.
.... lol okay.
>Why can't schizos get a Beretta M92 at least?
Okay I think we need some clarification here. What is your definition of a schizo? Because I'm starting to think you mean it to encapsulate the majority of gun owners.

>So it was Democrats who mainly voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Why the hell are you bringing up the Terminator? He was not in office when California mass-doxxed every gun owner in that state. What the hell is your point bringing Arnold up?

>Again, those who have done nothing wrong have nothing to fear.
Cool. I guess that nullifies all the bitching and moaning in that other thread then. If Trump is consolidating data across agencies then... Well you've got nothing to hide, right?

And the rest of your post I honestly don't have a clue what the hell you're talking about. So I'll leave that to someone else to respond.

This is all you needed to say in this thread
>>1409753
>I honestly don't have a clue
Sums you up, retard.

>>1409427
>>1409425 (OP)
There really isn't any need to keep the dog and pony show going so it's head scratching he would write that. The political football of getting a pro 2A court is already going down the field with this denial. My only guess is that he's actually serious and they want to get the full weight of the leftist anti gun tactics to BTFO in one opinion and don't have to come back again like they did in McDonald because some hack actually sat up there and said the Heller case didn't apply to STATES and there was some controversy. Even though that has never happened in the history of the court for a ruling like Heller and only pants on head retards would seriously believe that.

>>1410133
>thinks USA Today doesn't cover world events or doesn't have offices worldwide
You aren't American, so that link is appropriate for you

>>1410138
>even Stevie Wonder can see there's no HTML web page links posted in >>1409550 >>1409611
You've already admitted you're retarded in this thread, just as you do with every post you make in 4chan

>>1410144
I'm not reading all that

>>1410146
why are you talking about yourself in the third person?