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County, state and federal officials want to export Maryland’s handgun licensing law to other states, billing it as a way to drive down handgun deaths. Attorney General Brian E. Frosh and Rep. Christopher Van Hollen Jr. Wednesday, the day before ...

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The murder of state Sen. Clementa Pinckney in Charleston haunts us. And the five Marines in Chattanooga. The slaughter of innocents in Newtown. The movie theater massacre in Denver. The list gets longer and longer. The pace and predictability inures ...

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If we hadn’t given up on controlling gun violence after the 2012 massacre in Newtown, the last shred of hope withered after the killings in Charleston. A pathetic drill replaces hope. Not again, we say to ourselves  before we say: Of ...

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Los Angeles gun-control proposal heads news summary that includes a Wall Street lawsuit, gay rights in Asia and child-abuse policy debate in Montgomery County.

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Gun-permit applicants need "good reason" leads news summary that includes a videotape that should have been shown, a new beer-transport law and law schools starting law firms.

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The Maryland Licensed Firearms Dealers Association Inc. and other gun-rights advocates told the 4th Circuit that a federal judge in Baltimore used the wrong standard when she upheld the 2013 Firearm Safety Act in August.

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HARTFORD, Conn. — The families of nine of the 26 people killed and a teacher wounded two years ago at the Sandy Hook Elementary School filed a lawsuit Monday against the manufacturer, distributor and seller of the rifle used in ...

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Twenty-one states are asking a federal appeals court to overturn provisions of Maryland's gun-control law that ban 45 assault weapons and a limit gun magazines to 10 rounds.

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People who carry concealed handguns near public events and demonstrations in the nation's capital shouldn't have to be personally warned by a police officer before they are subject to arrest, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said Thursday.

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