<p>WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is declining to take up a challenge to Maryland’s ban on bump stocks and other devices that make guns fire faster.</p>
<p>The high court on Monday turned away a challenge to the ban, which took effect in October 2018. A lower court had dismissed the challenge at an early stage and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/0c6f685dcf0782a8164dafe2f3a9039b">that decision had been upheld by an appeals court</a>. As is typical, the court didn’t comment in declining to take the case.</p>
<p>Maryland’s ban preceded a nationwide ban on the sale and possession of bump stocks that was put in place by the Trump administration and took effect in 2019. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/7af2f6e039fa4b0d9b5263f2c91ccdab">The Supreme Court previously declined to stop the Trump administration from enforcing that ban</a>. Both Maryland’s ban and the nationwide one followed a 2017 shooting in Las Vegas in which a gunman attached bump stocks to assault-style rifles he used to shoot concertgoers from his hotel room. Fifty-eight people were killed and hundreds were injured.</p>
