March 09, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to consider permissible limits on firearms in "sensitive places" despite claims the Fourth Circuit disregarded landmark Second Amendment precedents, leaving intact a blanket ban on guns in parks within Virginia's most populous county.
August 27, 2025
The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday upheld a Virginia county's ban on guns in public parks and left in place its ban near county-permitted events, leaning on U.S. Supreme Court dicta on school gun bans and ruling that plaintiffs hadn't shown enough to sustain their facial challenge to the restrictions.