BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is highly disappointed that at this time the U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear our important case challenging the ban on so-called “assault rifles” in the state of Maryland.
CCRKBA joined with the Second Amendment Foundation and others in this case, known as Snope v. Brown.
“However,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “it is encouraging Justice Brett Kavaaugh has signaled it is more than likely the Court will hear one of several other challenges to bans on semiautomatic rifles that are currently in the legal pipeline.
“We recognize,” Gottlieb continued, “that the court is currently inundated with a heavy case load that includes well over a hundred lawsuits filed by left wing interests, many of which are on the Court’s emergency docket, making it impossible to hear many pending cases in an orderly fashion.”
Snope v. Brown is one of the cases in which CCRKBA is directly involved as a plaintiff, Gottlieb said. He called the challenge of Maryland’s gun ban an “issue of critical national importance” because it deals with the ability of Maryland residents to purchase and own what is currently the most popular rifle in the country. It is estimated that more than 20 million such firearms are in private hands today, and more are being purchased across most of the United States every day. Only ten states and the District of Columbia have enacted some type of restrictions on this class of firearms.
“The modern semiautomatic is definitely in common use,” Gottlieb observed. “Our primary concern is that American gun owners will have to once again wait for the high court to accept a case and determine whether state level bans violate the Constitution’s Second Amendment, which we definitely believe is the case. Remember, a right delayed is a right denied.”