WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Monday turned down two appeals seeking to expand access to firearms, leaving in place a Maryland law banning semiautomatic rifles and a Florida restriction on carrying guns openly. Gun dealers and firearms enthusiasts had challenged a Maryland law enacted following the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn. They argued that the state’s ban on rifles and shotguns it classified as assault weapons, along with high-capacity magazines, violated a Second Amendment right to individual...

Source: Wall Street Journal November 27, 2017 20:35 UTC