{"id":96416,"date":"2023-09-29T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=96416"},"modified":"2023-09-29T22:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T03:25:41","slug":"96416","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=96416","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Judge halts Maryland\u2019s ban on carrying guns in places selling alcohol and near demonstrations<\/a><\/p>\n

A federal judge on Friday blocked several restrictions Maryland lawmakers tried to impose on the ability to carry a firearm, while leaving other gun control measures in place.<\/p>\n

Judge George L. Russell III, an Obama appointee, issued a preliminary injunction halting Maryland\u2019s new restrictions banning the carrying of a gun in places selling alcohol, in private buildings or property without owner\u2019s consent and within 1,000 feet of a public demonstration.<\/p>\n

He reasoned there was no historical basis to leave those rules in place in light of the Second Amendment challenge brought by a group of plaintiffs and gun rights groups. It was filed against Maryland\u2019s Gun Safety Act of 2023 that is set to take effect Sunday.<\/p>\n

Judge Russell analyzed the restrictions following the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling last year that upended New York\u2019s license-to-carry measure, in which the state required people to show a proper need to carry a gun. The majority of the high court said any gun control measure must be consistent with the nation\u2019s tradition and history back to its founding.<\/p>\n

Using that precedent as a guide, Judge Russell upheld state bans against the carrying of a gun in museums, health care facilities, state parks, mass transit, school grounds, government buildings, casinos, racetracks, amusement parks and stadiums. He said there were traditions showing regulation of guns in those places.<\/p>\n

Maryland lawmakers passed the law after the Supreme Court\u2019s 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen, which held tat carrying a pistol in public is a constitutional right. The high court\u2019s decision has led to many gun control measures being upended across the country as lower courts try to find historical analogs when weighing a gun control measure against a Second Amendment challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Judge halts Maryland\u2019s ban on carrying guns in places selling alcohol and near demonstrations A federal judge on Friday blocked several restrictions Maryland lawmakers tried to impose on the ability to carry a firearm, while leaving other gun control measures in place. Judge George L. Russell III, an Obama appointee, issued a preliminary injunction halting … Continue reading “”<\/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":[23,50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-goobermint","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96416","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=96416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96417,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96416\/revisions\/96417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}