Maryland’s licensing requirement for handgun buyers violates right to keep arms for personal home protection and lacks roots from early America, gun groups say.
Maryland's attorney general defends constitutionality of state’s handgun licensing mandate as in keeping with nation’s history of training militias to use guns.
A gun rights group resumed its challenge to Maryland’s licensing requirements for would-be handgun purchasers as an infringement on their constitutional rights.
Supreme Court ruling that people have a constitutional right to carry handguns outside emboldens Maryland gun rights advocates challenging state’s firearm laws.