SAF & FPC Just Forced SCOTUS to Face Maryland's Bruen Killswitch

The Second Amendment Foundation and Firearm Policy Coalition have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review Maryland's post-Bruen sensitive-places law — a carry ban so sweeping it strips law-abiding permit holders of the right to bear arms anywhere that actually counts.

Here's what Annapolis did: after the Supreme Court's 2022 Bruen decision demolished may-issue permitting regimes nationwide, Maryland lawmakers didn't accept the ruling. They didn't fight it openly either. Instead, they designated virtually everywhere a 'sensitive place' where carry is prohibited. Parks. Transit systems. Restaurants. Private businesses. **They turned the entire state into a no-carry maze and called it compliance.**

That's not compliance. That's a constitutional shell game.

SAF and FPC's petition argues Maryland's law is exactly the kind of post-Bruen workaround the Court intended to forbid — death by a thousand sensitive-place cuts instead of an honest may-issue battle that Bruen already settled two years ago.

And Maryland is not alone. New York. California. Illinois. New Jersey. Every one of them has run the same playbook. **If SCOTUS takes this case, one ruling could torch the entire strategy simultaneously.**

That's the stakes. Not just Maryland. Every anti-gun legislature that thought it could legislate around the Supreme Court.

The Court has passed on several carry cases since Bruen, and anti-gun states are counting on that silence to keep their workarounds breathing. SAF and FPC just forced the issue onto the docket and made looking away a deliberate choice.

If SCOTUS grants cert, this could land as the most consequential Second Amendment ruling since Bruen itself — a hard deadline for every state still playing word games with 'sensitive places.'

**Watch this case like your carry rights depend on it. Because they do.** Support SAF and FPC, share this story, and tell your representatives: Maryland-style carry bans are unconstitutional by design, and the Supreme Court needs to end them before the entire country gets Maryland'd.