ANNAPOLIS – The Justice Department has written two letters to the U.S District Court in Maryland supporting the Constitutional rights of citizens arrested for filming police officers on duty. “The United States urges the Court to find that both the First and Fourth Amendments protect an individual who peacefully photographs police activity on a public […]
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Posted inBaltimore News
Gun Rights Proponents, Gun Control Advocates, Take to Annapolis
As more than 1,000 people, many of them gun rights supporters, lined up outside the Lowe House Office Building in Annapolis Friday to testify on Gov. Martin O’Malley’s gun control legislation, hundreds of gun control advocates rallied across the street with the governor. Vincent DeMarco, national coordinator of the Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence, […]
Posted inPrince George's County News
Maryland’s History of Gun Control
The Maryland Senate is set to vote on Gov. Martin O’Malley’s package of new gun legislation in the coming week. If approved, the law would ban assault rifles, decrease the maximum capacity of ammunition magazines from 20 to 10, update handgun licensing requirements to include digital fingerprinting, improve school security and restrict the ability of […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
Buying a Handgun in Maryland
ANNAPOLIS – I was brought up around firearms. I was taught to treat them with respect, but not fear them. So, three months after turning 21, right around Christmas, I decided it was time to buy my first handgun. My stepfather, who is my lifelong firearms instructor, informed me that buying a handgun would be […]