by Bob Walsh
Last month the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the idiotic Maryland ban on "semi-automatic assault weapons" in a ruling that is so incredibly flawed that it might very well lead to a complete shitcanning of similar bans nationwide (if we are lucky).
The law targets specific firearms by name and specifically mentions certain purely cosmetic features that somehow make these weapons inherently evil, such as pistol grip stocks and flash suppressors, as well as the mere ability to accept commonly available magazines of greater than ten round capacity. This ruling flies in the face of the SCOTUS decision in the HELLER case that ruled that firearms "in common use at the time for lawful purposes" were protected by the Second Amendment. The AR-15, which is effected by the ban, is the most commonly-owned rifle in the USA.
The ruling, Kolbe v. Hogan, was so bad that it might very well prompt SCOTUS to revisit the issue, something they have resisted since Heller.
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