Montgomery County defends constitutionality of its law banning gun possession within 100 yards of an enumerated “place of public assembly.”

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A gun rights group urged a judge to block enforcement of a law banning gun possession within 100 yards of a “place of public assembly” pending a ruling on constitutionality.

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Montgomery County’s ban on gun possession near a “place of public assembly” is essentially a countywide ban in violation of the right to bear arms, says gun rights group.

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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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A man seeking a reduction of his enhanced, nearly five-year federal prison sentence for gun possession by a "violent" felon received no help from Maryland’s top court.

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The Maryland Transit Administration violated the constitutional rights of light rail passengers when MTA officers put on a show of force in conducting a sweep of the train cars to ensure fares were paid, the state’s second-highest court held Thursday ...

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A Silver Spring teenager can be prosecuted for being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm though he had the federal government’s permission to be in the United States as an immigrant juvenile in need of assistance, a federal judge has ruled.

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The Maryland General Assembly passed legislation this session aimed at preventing and stiffening penalties for repeated gun offenders.

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ANNAPOLIS – The House Judiciary Committee has dropped from omnibus anti-crime legislation a provision that would permit prosecutors to appeal judges’ decisions to suppress from evidence at trial guns the judges conclude were seized from defendants in violation of their ...

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ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland public defender’s office Wednesday urged the General Assembly to pass legislation barring children from being charged as adults for gun offenses unless they actually used the weapon in a violent crime, saying the juvenile justice system ...

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