Is SCOTUS ready to take on an "assault weapons" ban?

A challenge to Maryland’s ban on so-called assault weapons could soon be taken up by the Supreme Court, and on today’s Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co the Second Amendment Foundation’s Alan Gottlieb explains why he’s cautiously optimistic that the Court will agree to heart the case

One of the big reasons for Gottlieb’s optimism is that the Supreme Court has asked Maryland’s Attorney General to weigh in on why it shouldn’t accept the case known as Bianchi v. Frosh, which is somewhat unusual.

While AG Brian Frosh’s brief to the Court isn’t due for a few more weeks, the Democrat is expected to argue that the Court has no reason to grant cert here, given that the Court allowed the Fourth Circuit’s original decision upholding Maryland’s gun ban to stand a few years ago in a case called Woolard v. Gallagher. The Bianchi case, according to the Fourth Circuit, is simply a rehashing of the arguments in Woolard, and Frosh will most likely just follow the Fourth Circuit’s lead in arguing that the Supreme Court should pass by the Bianchi case and leave the state’s ban on “assault weapons” intact.