Gun control advocates achieved a win in a closely watched Second Amendment case when a federal appeals court upheld Maryland’s ban on semiautomatic weapons equipped with high-capacity magazines, The Hill reported on Wednesday.
The full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided in a 10-5 vote on Tuesday that Maryland’s law complies with the Supreme Court’s recent expansion of gun rights, with Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III writing for the majority that “we decline to wield the Constitution to declare that military-style armaments which have become primary instruments of mass killing and terrorist attacks in the United States are beyond the reach of our nation’s democratic processes.”
Maryland passed the law in 2013 after 20 children and six adults were killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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