Supreme Court won't review bans on assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines
Source: USA Today
WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on June 2 preserved Maryland’s ban on assault-style weapons and Rhode Island's ban on high-capacity magazines, declining for now to decide if they meet the high court’s controversial bar for gun restrictions.
While that's a victory for gun control advocates − and it came over the objections of several conservative justices − the issue could come back to the high court.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh noted that challenges to other bans on assault-style weapons are being considered in lower courts and, "in my view, this Court should and presumably will address the AR-15 issue soon."
It takes four justices to agree to hear a case, and three − Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas − said they were ready to hear Maryland's ban on assault-style weapons and Rhode Island's ban on high-capacity magazines.
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