Gun rights groups ask Supreme Court to rule on sweeping Maryland firearm ban lower bench upheld

Two major Second Amendment groups called on the Supreme Court to hear a case challenging Maryland’s stringent "Assault Weapons Ban of 2013," after a lower court ruled the ban constitutional.

The Firearms Policy Coalition filed a petition to the high bench asking them to hear Snope v. Brown – alternatively Bianchi v. Frosh – which the Richmond, Va.-based Fourth Circuit upheld in a 10-5 decision earlier this month.

That decision, written by Reagan-appointed Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III...