Supreme Court rejects pair of important gun rights appeals

By Chris Eger

In their orders posted Monday, the nation’s high court upheld Florida’s prohibition on the open carry of firearms and Maryland’s assault weapon ban.
The challenges, which have been pending with the court all summer, were among more than 100 petitions denied by the justices with each lacking the required four jurists to agree to accept the case for further review.
In Norman v. Florida, which came to Washington after it was denied by the Sunshine State’s Supreme Court, Florida’s law preventing the open carry of firearms with slim exceptions for use while hunting or fishing was upheld. The vehicle for the challenge came in an appeal of a 2012 second-degree misdemeanor conviction of Dale Lee Norman who was found guilty by a succession of lower courts for Open Carrying of a Weapon outside of his home when his shirt did not cover the handgun for which he had a concealed carry permit.
Backed by Florida Carry, the group argued the state’s ban is unconstitutional as concealed carry in the state is a licensed privilege, and does meet the right to keep and bear arms protected under the Second Amendment. The state is one of only five that ban almost all open carry.
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Source: Guns.com