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WASHINGTON — Responding to gun control loopholes that have proven vexing for police in Maryland and elsewhere, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings will introduce bipartisan legislation on Tuesday to impose tougher penalties for people who traffic guns across state borders or buy them for someone else.

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Christopher Cummings, who had just completed his junior year at Old Dominion University and had decided to study law, was shot to death Friday in the house where he lived with other students near the Norfolk, Va., campus. He was 20.