(Bloomberg)-The US Supreme Court has risen a fresh appeal from the gun rights and refused to question the ban on the District of Columbia on ammunition FOO devices with large capacity. The judges on Friday rejected four firearm owners who said that the ban violated the protection of the gun rights in the second amendment of the Constitution. On June 2, the Supreme Court rejected a similar appeal in a Rhode Island case, along with a challenge to a ban on Maryland on so-called assault weapons. In any case, the court received one vote shortly of the four needed to take up a new case. In addition to DC, 14 states with high capacity prohibit ammunition nutritional equipment, according to Giffords Law Center, an interest group that supports gun restrictions. The DC Act makes it a crime to own gun magazines that can hold more than ten rounds. It was issued in the wake of the 2008 High Court decision that imposed the district’s ban on the handgun and for the first time said that the Constitution was protecting individual gun rights. A federal trial judge and then an appeals court confirmed the DC restrictions. Proponents of gun rights who sued the DC measure tried to extend the High Court decision in 2022 which declared a constitutional right to carry a firearm and set up a difficult new test for rating restrictions. The challengers said Americans have hundreds of millions of magazines with great capacity, many of which are for self -defense purposes. Supporters of the ban say the devices were used repeatedly in mass shooting. The law was supported at the lower court level by Everytown for Gun Safety, a advocacy group founded and backed by Michael Bloomberg, founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News Parent Company Bloomberg MP. The case is Hanson v. District of Columbia, 24-936. More stories like these are available on Bloomberg.com © 2025 Bloomberg LP
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