This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, September 26, 2012.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The right to keep arms has been affirmed by the Supreme Court, but a right to carry them has yet to be fully resolved.

Dave Koppel, an associate policy analyst at the Cato Institute, discusses what's next at the high court. The Heller case, which has a loose affiliation with the Cato Institute,

found there is an individual right to keep and bear arms and this was among many

scholars a controversial finding and now we're extending these cases of course the McDonald case from

Chicago was filed hours if not minutes after the Heller case had come down but there are other cases that have

been filed and you're talking about one here in Maryland.

Exactly that's the case of Woolard versus Gallagher which is currently before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Fourth Circuit roughly covers from Maryland down to South Carolina.

Of all the states in the Fourth Circuit, all of them except for Maryland currently are generally compliant

with the Second Amendment right to bear arms in West Virginia and

Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, an adult

who can pass a fingerprint-based background check and a safety training class will be issued a permit to carry

a handgun for lawful protection under a fair and objective licensing system.

Maryland is the only state that is currently violating the Second Amendment

on the right to bear arms.

In Maryland, the statute as interpreted the court by the Maryland State Courts, says that you only

get a carry permit if you are in imminent danger. So the fact that you just want to exercise your

constitutional right to protect yourself doesn't count. The Second Amendment

Foundation and Raymond Woolard, who had a carry permit and then was denied renewal of that,

brought a case in Federal District Court in Maryland, they won the case.

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