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Student with loaded gun taken into custody at Glen Burnie High
A 15-year-old student at Glen Burnie High who police say went to the school Tuesday with a loaded .22-caliber handgun was arrested and charged as a juvenile with a weapons violation. Officials credited three staff members at the school with detaining the...
Tags: Annapolis, Students, Teaching and Learning, Glen Burnie
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Changing America's gun laws requires changing its gun culture
The Sun and others have paid little attention to the importance of firearm size in the context of the current gun control debate. Due to the fact they are easily concealed and portable, handguns are more often accidentally discharged, used to commit...
Tags: Interior Policy, Laws, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control
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Society's lawlessness is reason enough to carry a gun
The only "good and substantial reason" citizens should need in order to obtain a concealed carry permit for their firearm is that we live in a society some of whose members have no respect for the lives of others ("U.S. appeals panel upholds Md. gun law,"...
Tags: Interior Policy, Criminals, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, Civil Rights
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Supporters mount campaign to preserve assault weapons ban
Gov. Martin O'Malley and gun-control advocates launched an offensive Thursday to protect his proposed ban on assault-type weapons from a House committee's efforts to scale it back. "Military-style assault weapons belong on the battlefield, NOT on the...
Tags: Anthony W. Batts, Lobbying, Montgomery County (Maryland), Kevin C. Kelly, Personal Weapon Control
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Baltimore contract killer gets 19 years in prison after sting
A Baltimore contract killer, who was caught telling an undercover FBI agent that he would murder someone for drugs and cash, pleaded guilty Thursday and was sentenced to more than 19 years in federal prison, the U.S. Attorney's office announced. "There...Tags: FBI, Punishment, Lawyers, Heroin, Prisons
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Why we should ban assault weapons
In 2002, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized the Washington region for three weeks by firing bullets at innocent people in parking lots and at gas stations, ultimately killing 10 people and wounding three others. They used a Bushmaster XM-15...
Tags: Annapolis, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Regional Authority, James Holmes, Lee Boyd Malvo
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Delegates consider scaling back assault weapons ban, O'Malley calls for action
The Baltimore SunDelegates are considering scaling back the assault weapons ban in Gov. Martin O'Malley's gun bill to keep legal the sale of guns used recent mass shootings in Newtown, Conn. and Aurora, Colo. O'Malley blasted an email to supporters Thursday morning,...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Justice System, Anthony G. Brown, Interior Policy
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Federal appellate court upholds Md. handgun permit laws
A federal appeals court has upheld Maryland's handgun permitting law, reversing a lower court decision by concluding that the state can constitutionally require an applicant to show “good and substantial reason” that he or she needs a...
Tags: Laws, Montgomery County (Maryland), Washington, DC, Personal Weapon Control, Judges
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Gun buyback event draws hundreds in Howard County
A line of cars snaked around the government office parking lot, down Bendix Road and for up to half a mile along Route 108 in the late morning and the afternoon, as people waited for hours to trade in guns to Howard County police for crisp $100 bills....
Tags: Interior Policy, Criminals, Gun Control, Ken Ulman, Personal Weapon Control
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Gun control bill advances in House of Delegates
The House of Delegates gave preliminary approval to its version of Gov. Martin O'Malley's gun control bill Tuesday night after defeating scores of amendments that attempted to weaken it. In a prolonged and heated debate, delegates ultimately preserved...
Tags: Laws, Montgomery County (Maryland), Personal Weapon Control, Judges, Justice System
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Senators vote with opposite party on death penalty
The Senate passed a repeal of the death penalty last week 27-20, but Howard County senators were on opposing sides of their party in the vote. Howard County senators last week in Annapolis voted with the opposing party on Gov. Martin O'Malley's bill...
Tags: Annapolis, Laws, Death Penalty, Lobbying, James N. Robey
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Police blotter
Aberdeen Shimron S. Brooks, 26, of the first block of West Inca Street, was charged Friday with two counts of possessing a drug other than marijuana, possessing drugs with intent to distribute and possessing drug paraphernalia. Aberdeen Police report:...Tags: Panera Bread Company, Essex (Baltimore, Maryland), Glen Burnie, Drug Trafficking, Prosecution
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