SCOTUS May Examine Maryland Handgun Permit Law

By Tom Knighton

For years following the McDonald ruling, the Supreme Court was notoriously adverse in taking on another Second Amendment case. For whatever reason, they’d said their peace and weren’t going to revisit that ground.

Nevermind that McDonald was just the second gun case they’d heard in decades.

That changed earlier this year when they agreed to hear the New York case that takes aim at a New York City law regarding transporting firearms. It was good news, though I’m personally not sure we’re going to get much of a landmark ruling on that case.

However, there are now signs that the Supreme Court has an interest in something that might be a lot more near and dear to Second Amendment-loving hearts. (Warning, though, it’s behind a paywall)

The U.S. Supreme Court has shown interest in hearing a gun rights group’s argument that the Maryland handgun permit law’s requirement that applicants provide the state with a “good and substantial reason” to carry a handgun outside the home violates the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

The high court on Friday requested that the Maryland Attorney General’s Office respond to the Second Amendment challenge brought by the Maryland State Rifle and Pistol Association. The …Read the Rest

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