The full 15-member 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals displayed clear divisions Wednesday when considering Maryland’s law banning the AR-15 rifle and other guns described as assault weapons. The case prompted a friend-of-the-court brief from the John Locke Foundation this month at the nation’s highest court.
The John Locke Foundation has helped file a friend-of-the-court brief at the nation’s highest court in a case challenging Maryland gun restrictions. Second Amendment supporters filed a petition on Feb. 8 asking the US Supreme Court to take the case, Bianchi v. Brown, before the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals could issue a ruling.
Recently, Judge Roger Thomas Benitez, a senior U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, ruled that the 1989 California assault weapon ban is unconstitutional. The ruling prompted the media to fall back on a common yet egregiously incorrect claim that the AR-15 is the “weapon of choice” for mass...
