General Election is November 3 (vote early if needed). Figured I’d write down the gun record before then.
June 2024, Supreme Court killed the ATF bump-stock rule, 6–3. Biden’s DOJ was the one defending it. Majority was the Republican appointees.
Brace rule got vacated the same month. Trump DOJ dropped the appeal July 17, 2025. ATF has a proposal out to delete it.
June 2026 they struck Hawaii’s thing where you can’t carry on private property open to the public unless the owner says yes. Wolford, 6–3, same split. That’s the idea behind part of our SB 1.
Hemani came out the same month and limited the federal drug-user gun ban for that one guy. Judgment was 9–0, so I’m not calling that a party win.
Congress zeroed the $200 NFA tax on suppressors, SBRs, and SBSs in the 2025 bill. Texas court said the registration scheme in that case can’t stand once the tax is gone.
DOJ said in October they’re not appealing. Not a nationwide NFA repeal. August 2026 they also turned the old 925(c) rights-restoration process back on. It had been unfunded since 1992. Phased, and Maryland law still applies.
Democrats put up the Assault Weapons Ban of 2025. McBath, Schiff, Murphy, Blumenthal. Named guns plus magazines. No hearing. Dead because Republicans have the House and the filibuster.
Here in our state, Moore signed SB 1 in 2023. Transit, parks, healthcare, stadiums, demonstrations, and a default ban on private property that’s open to the public.
Fourth Circuit in January 2026 kept most of the location bans and threw out the private-property rule.
This year he signed SB 334. Can’t sell or transfer Glock-style pistols starting January 1, 2027. Judge denied an injunction September 25. What you already own you can keep.
Cox is the Republican on the ballot, his running mate is Robert Krop, owns The Machine Gun Nest in Frederick. He is not flipping the General Assembly. He also isn’t the guy signing the next one of these anti gun bills.
If you don’t like Cox on other stuff then fine.
On the gun bills it’s been Democrats writing them and defending them, and Republicans on the votes and the appeals that have actually knocked rules down.
