The Supreme Court let stand Maryland’s handgun licensing regime, turning away a long-running Second Amendment challenge in a brief order issued Monday.

A group of gun owners, a gun rights group and a firearms store sued over Maryland’s law, arguing the requirements burden their constitutional rights.

They told the justices their intervention was needed to prevent lower courts from misapplying the court’s recent expansion of Second Amendment rights in NYSRPA v. Bruen, which held that gun laws must be consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.

“But certain lower courts — determined to avoid applying Bruen’s holding — are disregarding this Court’s precedents and straining the constitutional text to fit desired........

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