The Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal by a group of gun rights advocates seeking to overturn Maryland’s ban on assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines under the Second Amendment.

The decision, a major win for gun safety advocates, leaves in place a ruling by the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals which ruled that the state may constitutionally prohibit sale and possession of the weapons.

The state legislation, enacted in 2013 after the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, specifically targets the AR-15 – the most popular rifle in America with 20-30 million in circulation. They are legal in 41 of the 50 states.

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    Every fascist dictatorship seizes guns. This is not a ‘some do, some don’t’ situation. They all do.

    I also find it very amusing how hard you’ve argued against guns, without ever acknowledging that education and mental health are the real problems that need solutions. You sure were quick to downplay everything else I said, but you didn’t touch that one.

    People like you are transparent. I’m done here, fuck you and the people that agree with you.

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      Gun people have sanitized history to support improved sales in the past. Its completely accepted these days that removing guns from a population under fascism is required.

      Expanding the argument doesn’t disagree with my point, easy access to guns is stupid. Never disagreed with mental health or education. Stupid people tend to imagine who they are arguing against, which is why you imagined i disagreed with you on those points.

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        Did you seriously just try to suggest that fascist governments seizing guns is sanitized history?

        Debatelords are disgusting people. Refer back to my last comment.

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          I keep wondering when you will ask what i mean by easy access to guns. Dumb people always take several steps back into their beliefs before fighting back.

          Yes. Fascists don’t need to seize guns and have a complicated relationship with them. Nazi Germany is the easiest example. Gun ownership for true Germans and completely disallowed for ‘the other’. It does vary though, which is part of the difficulty in defining fascism and identifying fascists.

          I’d argue you are more of a debate lord. Telling me you won’t respond, then making more false stupid statements.