Supreme Court leaves in place District of Columbia's gun restriction on large magazines
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WASHINGTON — On Friday, the Supreme Court maintained a long-established gun restriction in the District of Columbia, which prohibits magazines containing more than 10 rounds of ammunition, choosing yet again not to engage in a new gun rights case.

Despite having a 6-3 conservative majority that typically supports gun rights, the court dismissed a challenge to the Washington, D.C., law just days after refusing an appeal concerning a similar statute in Rhode Island.

Then, the court also left in place Maryland’s ban on assault-style weapons including the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle.

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In a significant 2022 ruling, the court broadened gun rights by ruling, for the first time, that the right to bear arms under the Constitution’s Second Amendment applies beyond the home. However, since then, the court has frustrated gun owners by opting not to review cases that would build on that decision.

The District of Columbia has long been a legal battleground over gun restrictions. The Supreme Court’s landmark 2008 ruling that for the first time found that people have an individual right to bear arms in self defense in their homes arose from a challenge to a D.C. law.

In the latest case, four gun owners challenged the restriction on large-capacity magazines that was enacted in the aftermath of the 2008 Supreme Court ruling, saying the restriction is unlawful under the later 2022 decision.

Both a federal judge and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the law.

The appeals court, in a 2-1 vote, said in a ruling last year that although large-capacity magazines are arms under the Second Amendment and have been in common use for years, they can be regulated because they are “particularly dangerous.”

Last summer, the Supreme Court sidestepped multiple gun-related disputes soon after it issued a ruling that upheld a federal law that prohibits people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms.

In other action on pending appeals Friday, the court decided against taking up a significant election case involving mail-in ballots in the battleground state of Pennsylvania that pitted Republicans against Democrats.

The decision leaves intact a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that said voters who send mail-in ballots that are flagged as defective can then file a separate provision in-person ballot.

The Republican National Committee was seeking to overturn the 2024 state court decision, while the Democratic National Committee was defending it.

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