The NRA is asking the Supreme Court to weigh in on whether some types of firearms aren't covered by the Second Amendment.

In declining to take up the case, the Supreme Court leaves intact a lower court decision upholding Maryland's ban on certain semiautomatic rifles.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A split Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to a state ban on assault weapons, semiautomatic rifles that are popular among gun owners and that have also been used in multiple mass shootings.

The Supreme Court declined to hear a case to overturn a 2013 Maryland law that outlawed various semiautomatic guns, calling them illegal "assault weapons."

Judges have struggled to apply the Supreme Court's controversial bar for gun restrictions that says bans must be grounded in historic tradition.

The Supreme Court turned away an appeal by a group of gun-rights advocates seeking to overturn Maryland's ban on AR-15 semi-automatic rifles under the Second Amendment.

A ‘cultural and political war’ continues in Maryland with reports that the Navy is considering renaming vessels bearing the names of Harriet Tubman and Thurgood Marshall.