Maryland Licensing Case Takes Supreme Court Decision into Consideration

AmmoLand ^ | October 21, 2022 | Dean Weingarten

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U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)-Maryland Shall Issue, Inc., a Second Amendment protection activist organization based in Maryland, has submitted a brief for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals so that the Court can take notice of the landmark Second Amendment case of New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen.

The Plaintiffs or Appellants are Maryland Shall Issue. The defendants are the State of Maryland.

Maryland is one of the six states which do not have protection in the State constitution similar to the Second Amendment.

Here is a timeline of important events in the timeline of the case :

• The complaint was filed on September 30, 2016.
• An order by the district court granting defendants’ (the State) motions for dismissal in part of and denying them in part was issued on September 6, 2017.
• An order granting the defendant’s motion for summary judgment against Maryland Shall Issue was issued on March 3rd, 2019.
• The case was appealed to the 4th Circuit on April 25, 2019.
• Judgment was rendered in part, the case was remanded to District Court on August 3rd, 2020
• The District Court issued an opinion dismissing the suit on August 23, 2021.
• The case was appealed again to the 4th Circuit on September 16, 2021.
• A notice considering Bruen was filed with the Court by Maryland Shall Issue on June 23, 2022.
• A Brief by the appellees (the State) was filed on October 17, 2022.
• A response by the appellants (Maryland Shall Issue) is due on November 16, 2022.

The crux of the case is whether the Maryland Handgun Qualification License (HQL), based on the statute enacted in 2013, violates the rights protected by the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. From Maryland Shall Issue, Original complaint filed in 2016:

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With the requirements stated in Bruen, it is hard to see how the Maryland license scheme can be considered constitutional.

[Celtic Conservative]

Yeah, but if California is any indication Maryland is gonna appeal, obfuscate and delay as long as possible. Dems don’t care if they’re acting in bad faith. Deny the 2nd amendment as long as possible by any means.

CC

[cyclotic]

Inexplicably, Maryland became shall issue soon after the NY v Bruen case was released.

They aren’t even delaying permits.

[CtBigPat]

Do Connecticut next. Why should I, as a law abiding citizen, have to spend hundreds of dollars and wait months to be ALLOWED my Constitutional rights?

[muir_redwoods]

An old friend of mine was surprised that there is no legal process to buy any kind of firearm or even ammunition in CT without some sort of permit.

I worked in CT in firearm sales for a large National chain. Two NY state troopers, in uniform, tried to buy some shotgun shells and I had to turn them down. I elevated the question to store management and, without CT permits (not carry permits but CT issues an ammunition permit) even NY State troopers couldn’t buy ammunition in CT.

The state is insane.