The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), along with the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, the Firearms Policy Coalition, and individual David Snope, has escalated their legal battle against Maryland’s ban on modern semiautomatic rifles to the U.S. Supreme Court. The group, represented by a legal team from Cooper & Kirk in Washington, D.C., and the DiGuiseppe Law Firm in Southport, N.C., filed a petition for certiorari challenging the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that likened these firearms to fully-automatic military rifles, thus ruling them outside Second…