The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), along with the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, the Firearms Policy Coalition, and individual David Snope, has escalated their legal battle against Maryland’s ban on modern semiautomatic rifles to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The group, represented by a legal team from Cooper & Kirk in Washington, D.C., and the DiGuiseppe Law Firm in Southport, N.C., filed a petition for certiorari challenging the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that likened these firearms to fully-automatic military rifles, thus ruling them outside Second Amendment protections.
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The appeal, known as Bianchi v. Frosh, seeks to overturn the appellate court’s interpretation, which the SAF argues improperly extends the Supreme Court’s rulings in landmark cases like Heller (2008), McDonald (2010), and Bruen (2022).
SAF founder Alan M. Gottlieb expressed concern over the federal courts’ trend of narrowing the scope of the Second Amendment, stating, “The Fourth Circuit, as well as other federal courts, are attempting to flip the Supreme Court’s Heller ruling on its head. They are essentially arguing the arms protected by the Second Amendment are limited only to certain state-approved firearms, which would make it no right at all, but a government-regulated privilege. This is the third time we have petitioned the high court in this case.”
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Adam Kraut, SAF Executive Director, emphasized the necessity of Supreme Court intervention, “Certiorari is required in this case to correct an increasingly widespread misunderstanding of the Supreme Court precedent, and the Second Amendment, itself. The specific type of firearm in question is commonly owned across the country, placing it well within the scope of the Second Amendment.”
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