ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland's ban on 45 kinds of assault weapons and
its 10-round limit on gun magazines were upheld Tuesday by a federal
appeals court in a decision that met with a strongly worded dissent.
In a 10-4 ruling, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, said the guns banned under Maryland's law
aren't protected by the Second Amendment.
"Put simply, we have no power to extend Second
Amendment protections to weapons of war," Judge Robert King wrote for
the court, adding that the Supreme Court's decision in District of
Columbia v. Heller explicitly excluded such coverage.
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, who led
the push for the law in 2013 as a state senator, said it's "unthinkable
that these weapons of war, weapons that caused the carnage in Newtown
and in other communities across the country, would be protected by the
Second Amendment."
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Source: NBC News
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