The entire 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will take up a challenge to Maryland’s ban on assault-style weapons, marking the second major gun case that the appeals court has agreed to rehear ...

The advocates’ appeal marked their second high court challenge to Maryland’s 2013 ban. In November 2017, the Supreme Court declined without comment to review the 4 th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh helped pass the state’s ban on “assault weapons” after the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. (Jonathan Newton/The ...

RICHMOND, Va. (C.N.) — A Fourth Circuit en banc panel declared Maryland’s assault weapons ban constitutionally sound Tuesday, teeing up a potential Supreme Court challenge. “It is but another example ...

Maryland’s prohibition on “assault weapons” was passed in the wake of the 2012 massacre of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. The state banned less-common ...

Maryland passed the sweeping gun-control measure after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that killed 20 children and six educators in Connecticut. It bans 45 kinds of assault weapons ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court turned away an appeal from Maryland gun owners who challenged the state's ban on assault weapons, which were used in recent mass shootings in a south Texas ...

Congress allowed a national assault weapons ban to expire in 2004. Attorneys for Maryland contend the guns aren’t protected by the Constitution because they’re similar to military-grade weapons.

Three variations of the AR-15 assault rifle are displayed at the California Department of Justice in Sacramento on Aug. 15, 2012. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP) RICHMOND, Va. (C.N.) — Gun rights advocates for ...

Thomas, meanwhile, dissented in 2015 when the Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to a municipal ban on AR-15-style weapons, writing that the "overwhelming majority" of people who owned the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A split Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to a state ban on assault weapons, semiautomatic rifles that are popular among gun owners and that have also been ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A split Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to a state ban on assault weapons, semiautomatic rifles that are popular among gun owners and that have also been ...