In declining to take up the case, the Supreme Court leaves intact a lower court decision upholding Maryland's ban on certain ...

Three conservative justices publicly noted their disagreement, and a fourth said he is skeptical that such bans are ...

Kavanaugh predicted Monday the court will soon consider the question of whether assault weapons bans are unconstitutional, ...

Judges have struggled to apply the Supreme Court's controversial bar for gun restrictions that says bans must be grounded in historic tradition.

An 'assault weapons' ban for Rhode Island is getting its first vote this week, but some cities and towns are already fighting ...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to the legality of state restrictions on assault-style rifles and large-capacity ammunition magazines, passing up for now cases ...

and a fourth said he is skeptical that assault-weapons bans are constitutional. Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch said they would have taken a case challenging Maryland's ban, and Justice ...

The opponents were also thrown a curve ball on June 2 when the U.S. Supreme Court decided against taking up challenges to Maryland's assault-style weapons ban and Rhode Island's ban on high ...

Congress allowed a national assault weapons ban to expire in 2004. Gun rights groups argue that banning the popular weapons violates people's Second Amendment rights. Attorneys for Maryland ...

Congress allowed a national assault weapons ban to expire in 2004. Attorneys for Maryland contend the guns aren’t protected by the Constitution because they’re similar to military-grade weapons.