The Maryland General Assembly will consider legislation this coming session aimed again at protecting Marylanders from firearm violence.

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Maryland’s top court will consider whether the state’s ban on gun possession by someone sentenced to more than two years in prison for a nonviolent common law crime violates the Second Amendment.

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House Democrats began pushing ahead Wednesday with legislation that would ban certain semi-automatic weapons.

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My research suggests that closing the boyfriend loophole when it comes to banning gun possession for individuals under domestic violence restraining orders would probably save lives.

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Maryland’s ban on gun possession by someone sentenced to more than two years in prison for a nonviolent crime does not violate the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, the state’s second-highest court ruled Wednesday. In its reported decision, ...

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The Supreme Court’s decision has emboldened Maryland gun rights advocates in their pending Second Amendment challenges to the state’s handgun permitting and licensing requirements.

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Senate bargainers reached agreement Tuesday on a bipartisan gun violence bill, potentially teeing up final passage by week's end on an incremental but landmark package.

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The outline of a bipartisan Senate agreement to rein in gun violence has no game-changing steps banning the deadliest firearms but does propose measured provisions.

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It does not help to rail against things that the law does not allow to be changed when there are things that can be done to make us all a bit safer.

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The House approved a “red flag” bill that would allow families, police and others to ask federal courts to order the removal of firearms from people at extreme risk of harming themselves or others.

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