A federal appeals court upheld Maryland’s decade-old handgun licensing law, saying that since it requires that the government issue a license to any law-abiding person, it does not infringe on the Second Amendment.
In a 40-page opinion, a federal judge enjoined three portions of S.B. 1, from taking effect, which stops the “private building consent rule” declaring all private property that is open to the public to be a prohibited place.
Montana AG Austin Knudsen (R-MT) filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit over a Maryland county law he says is defying the Supreme Court’s landmark Second Amendment test by establishing “unconstitutional” gun-free buffer zones.
Maryland's gun control law was passed in direct response to the Supreme Court's decision last June affirming the Second Amendment right to carry a gun outside your home for self-defense.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed the gun-control measures into law, and the National Rifle Association quickly filed a federal lawsuit against the state.
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