The U.S. Supreme Court will consider hearing three cases that gun rights advocates consider pivotal, including one they say would set the Second Amendment on par with the rest of the Bill of Rights.
On Monday, the Court set the cases for a Jan. 10 conference.
The cases are Snope v. Brown and Ocean State Tactical v. Rhode Island, which respectively challenge Maryland’s ban on certain semiautomatic rifles, so-called “assault weapons,” and Rhode Island’s ban on ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.
In the third case, Gray v. Jennings, the plaintiffs want the High Court to overturn a decision by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Delaware refusing to block that state’s ban on perceived assault weapons while it was being disputed in court.
The Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), a party in the cases, called the actions significant to the gun debate. […]
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