In declining to take up the case, the Supreme Court leaves intact a lower court decision upholding Maryland's ban on certain ...

The U.S. Supreme Court today announced its decision not to hear Snope v. Brown, a significant case challenging Maryland's ban ...

Three conservative justices publicly noted their disagreement, and a fourth said he is skeptical that such bans are ...

A split Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to a state ban on assault weapons ... one of the firearms commonly referred to as an assault weapon.Several states have similar ...

Congress allowed a national assault weapons ban to expire in 2004. Attorneys for Maryland contend the guns ... expressed skepticism about assault weapon bans. As an appeals court judge in 2011 ...