pretty annoying how these fags put their politics over orders from the SCOTUS
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/03/22/court-gun-laws-maryland/LEGAL ISSUES
‘Where does it stop?’ Court questions effort to undo Maryland gun laws.
The Richmond-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit is weighing three cases involving firearms regulations
By Rachel Weiner
March 22, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. EDT
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) signs a new gun regulation into law in Annapolis in May, joined by the mother of a teenage girl killed in a school shooting. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The Washington Post)
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Judges on a federal appeals court in Richmond pushed back this week against efforts to undo gun regulations in Maryland and beyond, expressing incredulity from the bench at the idea that any firearm in common use cannot be legally banned no matter how dangerous.
“Have you ever fired an M16?” Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III asked an advocate for gun rights groups, who responded that he had not.
“I have,” said Wilkinson, a 1960s Army veteran appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit by President Ronald Reagan. The judge recalled firing an M16 at targets of human silhouettes. “When the bullets stuck the human being, it splintered them into all sorts of different pieces,” he said during marathon oral arguments Wednesday and Thursday in three cases related to state gun laws.
“There was very little left of the human being,” he recalled. “And that was a much earlier model of the M16. It’s since been perfected and perfected and been turned into a more lethal weapon than the one I used.”
The M16, capable of automatic and semiautomatic fire, was the U.S. military’s standard-issue rifle for decades. The civilian version, the AR-15, is hugely popular among gun enthusiasts nationwide. It is capable of rapid semiautomatic fire and has been used in numerous mass shootings over the years.