Twenty-one “shall issue” states have backed a Maryland gun rights group’s appeal to the Supreme Court, arguing the state handgun permit law’s requirement that applicants provide the state with a “good and substantial reason” to carry a handgun outside the ...

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The National Rifle Association has backed a Maryland gun rights group’s appeal to the Supreme Court, arguing the state handgun permit law’s requirement that applicants provide the state with a “good and substantial reason” to carry a handgun outside the ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court has shown interest in hearing a gun rights group’s argument that the Maryland handgun permit law’s requirement that applicants provide the state with a “good and substantial reason” to carry a handgun outside the home violates ...

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The Maryland Attorney General’s Office will take a wait-and-see approach to a U.S. Supreme Court challenge by gun rights advocates to the Maryland handgun permit law’s requirement that applicants provide the state with a “good and substantial reason” to carry ...

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Gun rights advocates on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review and overturn Maryland’s handgun permit law, saying its requirement that applicants provide the state with a “good and substantial reason” to carry the weapon outside the home violates ...

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After failing in 2013, gun rights advocates have resurrected their constitutional challenge to Maryland’s handgun permit law, saying its requirement that applicants provide the state with a “good and substantial reason” to carry the weapon outside the home violates their ...

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Members of a pro-Second Amendment group expressed concern that a compressed schedule of hearings on proposed gun control bills will leave little time for opponents and supporters to testify. The House Judiciary Committee Monday scheduled 10 hours of hearings on 19 ...

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On Jan. 22, the United States Supreme Court announced it would hear the appeal of New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc., et al. City of New York, et al., 883 F.3d 45 (2d Cir. 2018). This is the ...

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People met in Annapolis last month to protest gun violence; there were 15 shootings in Baltimore that weekend. There are approximately 350 million guns in the United States, with 12 million new guns added to the nation’s private arsenal each ...

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Sen. H. Wayne Norman Jr.’s death midway through the recently completed General Assembly session profoundly affected the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee on which he sat and on the issues it addressed, said its chairman, Sen. Robert A. “Bobby” Zirkin, D-Baltimore ...

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