The Supreme Court is declining to take up a challenge to Maryland’s ban on bump stocks and other devices that make guns fire faster.
The high court on Monday turned away a challenge to the ban, which took effect in October 2018.
A lower court had dismissed the challenge at an early stage and that decision had been upheld by an appeals court.
Maryland’s ban preceded a nationwide ban on the sale and possession of bump stocks that was put in place by the Trump administration and took effect in 2019.
Both bans followed a 2017 shooting in Las Vegas in which a gunman attached bump stocks to assault-style rifles to shoot concertgoers from his hotel room.
Fifty-eight people were killed.
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