RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court will reconsider a Maryland ban on semiautomatic high-capacity assault weapons.
The Washington Post reports (http://wapo.st/1Sp4U5Z) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit announced Friday that it’ll rehear a case involving the state’s 2013 ban, which prohibits the possession or sale of over 45 types of assault weapons. The law remains in effect.
A divided panel of the court cast doubt last month on the legality of Maryland’s ban, which was passed after the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.
The decision would have sent the gun control law back to a lower court for review, but instead a majority of eligible judges voted to revisit it this spring.
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1 comment:
We do not need anymore gun control. What we need is criminal control. Why can't politicians look at the statistics and see the highest crime rates are in places with the strictesss gun control laws. Good example is Chicago.Also a few years ago when people in Florida were being mugged on a daily basis they passed a law allowing the citizens to carry guns and the crime rate dropped by 50%.
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