FPC Supreme Court Brief: Maryland Bump-stock Ban is Unconstitutional
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FPC Supreme Court Brief: Maryland Bump-stock Ban is Unconstitutional
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced the filing of an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in the case of Maryland Shall Issue v. Hogan, a case challenging the Maryland government’s confiscatory ban on bump-stock devices. The brief, authored by FPC’s Director of Constitutional Studies, Joseph Greenlee, is FPC’s third Supreme Court brief filed in the last two weeks and is available at FPCLegal.org.
In 2018, Maryland passed a law forbidding anyone to “manufacture, possess, sell, offer to sell, transfer, purchase, or receive a rapid-fire trigger activator.” A “rapid-fire trigger activator” is defined as “any device” that, when installed in or attached to a firearm, “increases” the “rate at which a trigger is activated” “or” “the rate of fire increases.” According to the law, the ban includes any “bump stock, trigger crank, hellfire trigger, binary trigger system, burst trigger system, or a copy or a similar device, regardless of the producer or manufacturer.”