Gun-Rights Appeals Turned Away by U.S. Supreme Court (1)

The U.S. Supreme Court turned away 10 appeals that sought to broaden constitutional firearm protections, rejecting calls for rights to own a semi-automatic assault rifle and carry a handgun in public.

The rebuffs are a blow to the gun-rights movement, which has been trying for a decade to get the court to take up a major new Second Amendment case. They have been banking on Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who replaced the swing vote Anthony Kennedy in 2018, to make the court more assertive on the issue.

The rejections included challenges to New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maryland laws that sharply ...