Engage Armament LLC v. Montgomery County, Maryland (Md. 2025):
Under Criminal Law § 4-209(b), charter counties may regulate the purchase, sale, transfer,
ownership, possession, and transportation of firearms in areas that are expressly
enumerated in § 4-209(b)(1)(iii), are direct analogues to those, or otherwise constitute
places of public assembly. Accordingly, Montgomery County did not exceed its authority
under § 4-209(b)(1)(iii) in regulating firearms in or within 100 yards of parks, places of
worship, schools, libraries, courthouses, legislative assemblies, recreational facilities,
multipurpose exhibition facilities, and polling places. However, Montgomery County
exceeded its authority under § 4-209(b)(1)(iii) in regulating firearms in or within 100 yards
of hospitals, community health centers, long-term facilities, childcare facilities,
government buildings (as defined), and gatherings of individuals without regard to the place in which they are gathering.
Yes, the sensitive places are wider than they should be (when the last time you heard of a murder at "parks, places of worship, schools, [or] libraries"? But this was a decision of the Maryland Supreme Court. I do not know Engage they raised the Second Amendment in the initial suit. If they did, an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is in order.
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