gun control

This week’s count extends a day and is published late because of the holiday. Baltimore went five days without a murder last week, while police made four murder

Baltimore, Chicago and other cities are a case study on the limits of local gun control, not its perceived failure

The more distraught we get about the name-calling, wall-building tone of this year's presidential campaign, the more it helps to revisit a national campaign of half a century ago, which started out mired in a similar meanness, but then demonstrated how to rise above it.

Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman will sign a bill banning firearms in county buildings for everyone but police officers and people who have to carry guns on county business, he announced Tuesday.

A Westminster man was sentenced to serve five years in prison for breaking into a Union Bridge home and illegally possessing guns.

The Republicans' three amigos -- Rubio, Cruz and Bush -- look about as phony to many Latinos as the trio of actors-pretending-to-be-Mexicans played by Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short in the 1986 movie, "Three Amigos!"

U.S. has succumb to irrational fears of an armed criminal around every corner

How do you keep guns from the delusional when they're the ones running the NRA?

Don't blame 'gun enablers' when the failure to enforce existing laws is the real problem

Who sold the weapon a felon used to commit a crime? We need to be able to answer that question

Whatever happened to the days when an armed police officer was your must trusted protector?

A federal appeals court will hear arguments on key provisions of Maryland's sweeping gun-control law.

Legal argument to make same-sex marriage apply nationally makes sense for conceal carry permits, too

Second amendment advocates and people urging greater gun control in Howard County turned out to a public hearing Monday night to debate a new weapons bill before the County Council.

Smigiel says he's looking at run for Congress in 1st

Common sense dictates that government buildings are not a place for citizens to show up armed

Should police stationed in Baltimore schools be allowed to carry guns, as they are in other suburban jurisdictions?

The Baltimore city school board heard from the public on whether police officers should be able to carry their weapons on school grounds.

Governor Hogan's nominee for Maryland State Police has the right experience for the job

The 55th annual Bel Air Gun Show, an event that brings hundreds of people from throughout Maryland and Pennsylvania to the Harford County seat, begins Friday and lasts through Sunday.

Michael DeMos and David Ridgway figure what Maryland gun enthusiasts need is a more classy place to shoot.

By Arthur Hirsch

Jan 30, 2015

If State Sen. Jim Brochin has his way this legislative session, people convicted of committing crimes with guns will lose the right to get credit for good behavior, and the Baltimore County superintendent of schools won't be able to arbitrarily turn magnet schools into neighborhood schools without approval by the county's House and Senate delegations.

Gov. Martin O'Malley seems to think he's not getting the respect he deserves; he's got a point.

Before two of Carroll County's lawmakers leave to join Gov.-elect Larry Hogan's administration they filed multiple pieces of legislation they hope to pass in the 2015 session.

Gov.-elect Larry Hogan promised he would try to reduce tolls later this year and announced Tuesday a new transportation chief with an expertise in building roads. He also named prominent Baltimore Democrat Keiffer Mitchell as a special adviser to oversee expansion of charter schools.

As he was sworn into office Tuesday, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh warned that budget cuts would impair the ability of state lawyers to do their jobs and predicted the agency would lose lawyers next year.

By Erin Cox

Jan 6, 2015

Larry Hogan won the Maryland governorship by conceding that some social issues were settled — such as gay marriage, gun control and abortion — but saying that the state had gone too far on other matters such as taxation and spending.

Here's our take on 40 things definitely in store for Baltimore in 2015. We hope.

No one in this state accomplished anything nearly so remarkable in 2014 or with such far-reaching consequences as Gov.-elect Larry Hogan.

Voters gave the Democratic powers-that-be a shock in the election of Larry Hogan and the unexpected success of Heather Mizeur.

The Senate was speeding toward final approval of a $1 trillion spending bill late Saturday after muscling past opposition from conservative Republicans — an effort that would end any possibility of a government shutdown until next fall.

What is the Harford County Council really afraid of?

Two years after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., it's tempting to think of the horrific incident as a remote, rare event, unlikely to ever hit home. That would be naive. There have been at least two gun-related incidents in my children's Baltimore County school district in the past two years alone. And while school systems nationwide, including in Baltimore County, have spent a fortune on security measures since Sandy Hook, often following the NRA's advice of

A recap of the Dec. 7 edition of "The Newsroom," in which a revolt is brewing at ACN and a major character dies

NRA-backed effort of attorneys general to overturn Maryland gun law poses questions about where new governor stands

There are many good reasons for Sen. Bobby Zirkin to chair JPR, and then there's the money.

The 59th Carroll County Board of Commissioners has come and is nearly gone. During their four-year term, they dubbed themselves as the "Fighting 59th" citing their duty and desire to protect the residents of Carroll County, especially their rights as stated in both the state and federal constitutions.