U.S. top court rejects challenge to Maryland assault weapons ban

[billh58]

WASHINGTON, Nov 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court, which has avoided major gun cases for seven years, on Monday declined to hear a challenge backed by the National Rifle Association to Maryland's 2013 state ban on assault weapons enacted after a Connecticut school massacre.

The court turned away an appeal by several Maryland residents, firearms dealers and the state NRA association, who argued that the ban violated their right to keep and bear arms under the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment.

The justices sidestepped the roiling national debate over the availability of military-style guns to the public.

The case focused on weapons that have become a recurring feature in U.S. mass shootings including the Nov. 5 attack at a Texas church that killed 26 people, the Oct. 1 attack at a Las Vegas concert that killed 58 people, and the 2012 massacre of 20 schoolchildren and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, which prompted Maryland's law.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-top-court-rejects-challenge-to-maryland-assault-weapons-ban/ar-BBFOxeZ?li=BBnb7Kz

SCOTUS finally gets something right (correct). These weapons of war have no place on our streets, and this ban does not "infringe" on anyone's rights to be armed and obnoxious with other, just as deadly, weapons. And no, this is not a "slippery slope" -- it is a step toward sanity and the reasonable regulation of dangerous implements.

[Gothmog]

1. Yeah

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. GOOD! Fuck you, NRA!