Washington – The Supreme Court left on Friday a long -standing weapons restriction in the Columbia district that prohibits magazines that contain more than 10 rounds of ammunition, opting once again to avoid taking a new case of weapons rights.
The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority that generally favors the rights of weapons, rejected a challenge to Washington’s law, DC, only a few days after rejecting an appeal on a similar law in Rhode Island.
Then, the court also left instead of Maryland’s prohibition of assault-style weapons, including the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
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The Court extended weapons rights in an important 2022 ruling that determined for the first time that the right to support weapons under the second amendment of the Constitution extends outside the home. But since then, the court has frustrated the owners of arms by rejecting the cases that expand in that decision.
The Columbia district has long been a legal battlefield on arms restrictions. The 2008 bankruptcy of the 2008 Supreme Court that, for the first time, found that people have an individual right to have weapons in self -defense in their homes arose from a challenge to a DC law.
In the last case, four arms owners challenged the restriction in large -capacity magazines that was promulgated after the ruling of the 2008 Supreme Court, saying that the restriction is illegal under the decision of more than 2022.
Both a federal judge and the United States Court of Appeals for the Columbia district circuit confirmed the law.
The Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 vote, said in a ruling last year that, although great capacity magazines are weapons under the second amendment and have been commonly used for years, they can be regulated because they are “particularly dangerous.”
Last summer, the Supreme Court avoided multiple disputes related to weapons shortly after issuing a ruling that confirmed a federal law that prohibits people subject to domestic violence that restrict the orders of possession of firearms.
In another action on pending appeals on Friday, the Court decided not to deal with a significant electoral case that involved tickets by mail in the Pensylvania battlefield that faced Republicans against the Democrats.
The decision leaves intact a ruling from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania that says that voters who send tickets by mail that are marked as defective can present a vote in a separate disposition.
The Republican National Committee was trying to revoke the decision of the State Court 2024, while the National Democratic Committee was defending it.
