{"id":103494,"date":"2024-08-08T09:39:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=103494"},"modified":"2024-08-08T09:39:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:39:57","slug":"103494","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=103494","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/saf-vows-to-take-marylands-semi-auto-ban-to-the-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAF Vows to Take Maryland\u2019s Semi-Auto Ban to the Supreme Court<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has announced they will seek Supreme Court review in\u00a0<em>Bianchi v. Wilkinson,\u00a0<\/em>SAF\u2019s challenge to Maryland\u2019s assault weapons ban, after the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s decision from the 4th Circuit is unsurprising given their prior decision in\u00a0<em>Kolbe,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>said SAF Executive Director Adam Kraut.<br \/>\n\u201cWe believe, much like in\u00a0<em>Kolbe<\/em>, the court\u2019s analysis is flawed and that the challenged law is unconstitutional. We will be filing a petition for certiorari at the Supreme Court, as this case presents an excellent vehicle for the Court to settle this debate once and for all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the 65-page opinion, judges for the majority wrote: \u201cThe assault weapons at issue fall outside the ambit of protection offered by the Second Amendment because, in essence, they are military-style weapons designed for sustained combat operations that are ill-suited and disproportionate to the need for self-defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chief Judge Diaz drafted a concurring opinion, with five other judges joining.\u00a0Judge Richardson drafted a dissenting opinion, with four other judges joining stating: \u201cThe Second Amendment is not a second-class right subject to the whimsical discretion of federal judges. Its mandate is absolute and, applied here, unequivocal\u2026In holding otherwise, the majority grants states historically unprecedented leeway to trammel the constitutional liberties of their citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joining SAF in the case are the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Field Traders, LLC., the Firearms Policy Coalition, and three private citizens, David Snope, Micah Schaefer and Dominic Bianchi, for whom the case is named.\u00a0\u201cThe court relied heavily on the distinction between \u2018military style\u2019 arms and those appropriate for self-defense use,\u201d said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. \u201cThis distinction runs completely contrary to the mandates of\u00a0<em>Heller<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Bruen<\/em>, and now sets the stage for another petition for SCOTUS review of the case.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAF Vows to Take Maryland\u2019s Semi-Auto Ban to the Supreme Court The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has announced they will seek Supreme Court review in\u00a0Bianchi v. Wilkinson,\u00a0SAF\u2019s challenge to Maryland\u2019s assault weapons ban, after the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law. \u201cToday\u2019s decision from the 4th Circuit is unsurprising given their prior decision &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=103494\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103495,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103494\/revisions\/103495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}