Defending Maryland’s “good cause” public carry regime.
Court: District of Maryland
Issue at Stake: Public carrying of firearms outside the home
Summary: Everytown submitted this amicus brief in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, urging the federal court to reject a gun-lobby challenge to Maryland’s system for regulating the carrying of firearms in public. Everytown’s brief explains that Maryland’s requirement that an applicant have a “good and substantial reason” to obtain a permit to carry a firearm in public is consistent with centuries of Anglo-American history—and thus, for that reason by itself, constitutional under the Second Amendment.
Decision: Relying on its prior binding precedent in Woollard v. Gallagher, on March 19, 2021, the district court rejected plaintiffs’ Second Amendment challenge to Maryland’s firearms public-carry law. And, because it was “obligated to dismiss the case,” the district court also denied all motions to file amicus briefs.
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