WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress from Maryland and the District of Columbia are continuing their push for gun-control legislation after last week’s sit-in on the House floor. Maryland Democrats Chris Van Hollen, Elijah Cummings, Dutch Ruppersberger and John Sarbanes ...

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Legislation aimed at reducing gun violence would require trial judges to tell individuals convicted of domestic violence that they have two days to surrender their firearms to police or sell them to a licensed firearms dealers.

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ANNAPOLIS — A Maryland Senate committee will be holding a hearing on gun-control measures. U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen is scheduled to testify Wednesday in favor of a bill to ban guns on college campuses. Van Hollen, a Democrat, also ...

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A leading civil liberties group joined gun-rights advocates Friday in opposing legislation that would bar the Maryland State Police from issuing handgun permits to people on the FBI’s Terrorist Watch List.

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s attorney general has appealed a decision by a three-judge panel that sent the state’s assault weapons ban back to a lower court for review. Attorney General Brian Frosh announced Friday the state has asked the entire 4th ...

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Maryland is approving 95 percent of conceal carry permits but the leader of an organization that backs expansion of the conceal carry laws in the state is skeptical and says the Republican governor is using statistics that are old and don't tell the whole story.

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WASHINGTON  — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from gun owners who challenged a Chicago suburb’s ban on assault weapons. The justices on Monday refused to hear the case of a Highland Park, Illinois, pediatrician who objected to the ...

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An overworked public defender leads news summary that includes proposing gun control, defining "natural" and whether exchanging emails equals a meeting.

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Plus news on a long-awaited Sept. 11 trial and Chicago's gun-control law in this week's roundup.

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AUSTIN, Texas – Did the modern version of dramatic mass shooting deaths begin here? Some of us remember when a deranged, former Marine sharpshooter murdered 16 people and wounded 32, firing from the clock tower at the University of Texas. ...

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