The Supreme Court on Monday turned down requests from Second Amendment activists to pause gun control laws in Delaware and Maryland, keeping up a trend of avoiding challenges against state gun laws in recent years.

The Supreme Court is turning back a challenge to a strict gun licensing law in Maryland. The high court on Monday declined to hear the case in a brief order handed down without elaboration, as is typical.

The Supreme Court let stand Maryland’s handgun licensing regime, turning away a long-running Second Amendment challenge in a brief order issued Monday. A group of gun owners, a gun

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid to block Delaware's prohibition on assault-style rifles and large-capacity ammunition magazines, as well as a challenge to Maryland's handgun licensing requirements,