The US Fourth District Court of Appeals ruled earlier this week that Maryland’s ban on ARs and similar guns was constitutional. This despite an earlier decision from the Fourth District Court of Appeals affirming the same decision was vacated by the US Supreme Court in June 2022. The Supremes remanded the case back to the Fourth for a “re-do” and they re-did it alright. They doubled down on stupid.
Here’s a link to the decision.
What’s more, in the footnotes on the decision, we see how the anti-gun judges played games with the case.
Mark Smith over at Four Boxes Diner has more on that revelation from one of the dissents. (And I apologized I didn’t pick this up sooner, but his titles are always so click-baity that I’ve stopped watching his stuff regularly… Tip for Mark… filing a brief is not “breaking news”.)
Why is this relevant to us in Illinois?
Because the Fourth is using the same “Kissing Cousins” test the Seventh (wrongly) used in ruling against us last fall in our challenge to the Illinois gun and magazine ban. And I guarantee you the Seventh will mention this in their next crack at our challenge here in Illinois, using it to legitimize their legal insurrection against the rule of law and the US Supreme Court.
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