WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a gun law in Maryland that bans assault-style weapons such as ... case for now leaves the ban in place in the state.

Maryland officials argued the Supreme ... causes senseless and preventable deaths." The latest challenge to the assault weapons ban comes under consideration following a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ...

The second is a challenge to a federal ban on "bump stocks ... Contesting the term "assault weapon" as an inaccurate "political term," the Maryland plaintiffs said that assault weapons cannot ...

A federal district court similarly rejected this challenge, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit affirmed. Both courts relied on an earlier ruling by the 4th Circuit that had upheld other ...

Maryland enacted its ban on assault weapons, such as AR-15 semiautomatic rifles, after a shooter used such a weapon in the 2012 mass killing of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary ...

The high court recently declined to get involved for now in a challenge to Maryland’s ban on assault-style weapons after the gun rights groups who oppose the ban had asked the court to take the ...