A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld Maryland's decade-old ban on military-style firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons. A majority of 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges ...

Maryland in 2013 enacted its ban on "military-style assault rifles" such as the semiautomatic AR-15 and AK-47, after a shooter used such a weapon in the 2012 mass killing of 20 children and six ...

Adam Schiff (D-California) introduced the so-called “ Assault Weapons Ban of 2025 .” It picks up where his predecessor, ...

Litigation over the ban and similar laws enacted ... applying the justices’ new test. The Maryland law bans what the state defines as “assault weapons” akin to weapons of war like the ...

The federal appeals court in Richmond upheld Maryland’s assault-style weapons ban in an opinion that found regulating “excessively dangerous weapons” compatible with the Second Amendment.

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a challenge to Maryland's ban on so-called assault weapons, ...