Supreme Court Won’t Hear Challenge to Maryland’s AR-15 Rifle Ban

The 2013 Maryland statute outlaws so-called assault weapons such as the AR-15 rifle. The lawsuit remains pending in a lower court.

The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on May 15, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

The Supreme Court refused on May 20 to take up a challenge to Maryland’s law that bans so-called assault weapons such as the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle.

The ruling leaves the prohibition against such weapons in place in the state for the time being.