7 Groups Just Stormed Maryland's Highest Court Over Its Carry Permit Blacklist

Maryland doesn't revoke your rights at the border — it just acts like they never existed.

The NRA filed an amicus brief Thursday urging the Maryland Supreme Court to grant review in *Duvall v. State of Maryland*, a direct challenge to Maryland's blanket refusal to recognize carry permits issued by any other state. The coalition standing behind that brief: Second Amendment Foundation, Maryland Shall Issue, California Rifle & Pistol Association, Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, Second Amendment Law Center, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and the Cato Institute.

**Seven organizations. One message. You don't get to make felons out of law-abiding Americans just because they drove through your state.**

The math here isn't complicated. More than 40 states have already verified these permit holders — ran the background checks, issued the credentials, trusted their citizens. Maryland looks at all of that and says: irrelevant. The moment you cross its border carrying legally, you're a criminal under Maryland law. No grandfather clause. No reciprocity. No grace.

Maryland spent years hiding behind its old may-issue regime to lock out-of-staters out of every legal carry option. The state runs one of the most restrictive permit systems in the country and extends zero good faith to jurisdictions that actually respect their residents' rights.

*Bruen* ripped the legal cover off that in 2022. The Supreme Court was explicit: the right to bear arms is not a privilege states get to ration on a case-by-case basis. *Duvall* is the test of whether Maryland faces that reckoning at its own Supreme Court — or keeps manufacturing criminal exposure for visiting gun owners until a federal court forces the issue.

The Maryland Supreme Court hasn't decided yet whether to take the case. **That's the entire point of this filing.** Courts pay attention when seven major organizations arrive simultaneously and declare a question too consequential to dodge. This wasn't a solo shot — it was a coordinated siege, and Maryland's justices now have to decide if they want to be on record refusing to hear it.

If you've ever driven through Maryland with a carry permit from your home state, you already know the quiet dread of that crossing. This case is the fight to end it. Watch *Duvall* — the coalition behind it is serious, the brief filed Thursday raised the pressure, and the next move belongs to the court.