Just days after opening its 2013-2014 court calendar, the Supreme Court decided not to review an appellate court decision upholding Maryland’s carry licensing law that requires permit applicants to demonstrate a “good and substantial reason” for carrying a handgun outside their own home or business.
The high court on Oct. 15 refused to hear from Raymond Woollard and the Second Amendment Foundation, who say the law violates the Second Amendment.
Woollard obtained a permit after a 2002 home invasion but was denied renewal in 2009. The Maryland law does not recognize a vague threat or general fear as an adequate reason for obtaining a permit, and state officials said Woollard failed to demonstrate any ongoing danger seven years after the home invasion, even though the man who had posed that danger had moved back into his neighborhood.
Although the lower court had sided with Woollard, the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law, and the Supreme Court refused to review that decision.
