The Second Amendment Foundation is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a key part of Maryland’s handgun-permit law, which a federal appellate court found constitutional this spring.

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In a motion filed late Friday, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler asked the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to keep Maryland’s handgun-permit process in place while he challenges a ruling that would force the state to rewrite it. Gansler’s ...

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The state has two weeks to change its handgun-permit process, under a ruling by the same U.S. District Court judge who found the current law violates the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

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A federal judge in Baltimore has struck down part of Maryland’s handgun permit law as violating the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Judge Benson E. Legg said the law’s demand that applicants show “good and substantial reason” to ...

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