Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador has joined a coalition of 19 state attorneys general in filing an amicus brief urging the court to halt what they believe is a Maryland county’s unconstitutional gun ban in places of public assembly and in the 100-yard “buffer zones” around them.
A group of gun rights advocates, businesses, and private citizens sued to overturn a Montgomery County, Maryland law that prohibits the possession of firearms within 100 yards of a “place of public assembly,” defined to include publicly or privately owned parks, places of worship, recreational facilities, and more, and to include the surrounding grounds and parking lots of those locations.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that limitations on gun possession are permissible in specific locations like courthouses, polling places, schools, government buildings, and legislative assemblies. The attorney’s general say the law in question, however, impermissibly extends the restrictions to places of worship, public parks, recreational and multipurpose exhibition facilities, public libraries, and buffer zones.
