Maryland Supreme Court upholds gun possession ban in some non-felony cases
Source: Maryland Matters
Maryland Supreme Court upholds gun possession ban in some non-felony cases
By: Maryland Matters Staff - June 9, 2025 8:28 am
The Maryland Supreme Court upheld a state law banning gun possession by people who have been sentenced to two years or more in prison, calling it comparable to a ban on gun possession by felons, whether the underlying crime was a felony or not.
Despite a string of recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have greatly strengthened gun rights, the high court has not suggested that the Second Amendment “prohibits the enactment of laws banning the possession of guns by categories of persons thought by a legislature to present a special danger of misuse,” the Maryland court said Friday.
Maryland’s law is such a law, said the opinion by Maryland Chief Judge Matthew Fader.
“Based on our conclusion that § 5-133(b)(2) [the challenged law] is the equivalent of a prohibition on the possession of firearms by felons, and the United States Supreme Court’s repeated references to such prohibitions as presumptively constitutional, we conclude that it satisfies Second Amendment scrutiny and is facially constitutional,” Fader wrote.
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