Court Rules that Americans Have a Fundamental Right to Own Semi-Automatic Weapons

By Guns ‘n’ Freedom

A federal appeals court made a ruling on Thursday that many gun rights advocates are claiming as a major victory for gun owners across the United States.

Many gun shops and businesses challenged the constitutionality of a Maryland ban on certain guns deemed as “assault weapons”, which we know has been just an ignorant term given to any semi-automatic firearm.

According to the Huffington Post,

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit said the state’s prohibition on what the court called “the vast majority of semi-automatic rifles commonly kept by several million American citizens” amounted to a violation of their rights under the Constitution.

“In our view, Maryland law implicates the core protection of the Second Amendment — the right of law-abiding responsible citizens to use arms in defense of hearth and home,” Chief Judge William Traxler wrote in the divided ruling.

Provisions that outlaw these firearms, Traxler wrote, “substantially burden this fundamental right.”

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who recently suspended his Democratic presidential campaign, signed Maryland’s Firearm Safety Act of 2013 in the wake of the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which spurred similar initiatives in other Democratic-leaning states.

The legislation mostly targets specific kinds of semi-automatic …Read the Rest

Source:: GunsNFreedom