Gun Control

Carroll commissioners pass resolution opposing gun control bill

2013-05-24 06:05:00

Carroll County became the third county in the state this month to pass a resolution stating their opposition to the Maryland Firearms Safety Act of 2013 Wednesday. The Carroll County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted to approve a resolution...

Gun research a waste of time, money

2013-05-23 04:00:00

Johns Hopkins University receives billions of tax dollars and for the past 23 years they have used these tax dollars to support a Center for Gun Policy and Research ("Gun research is not biased," May 20). What a waste of our tax dollars. Most...

Carroll County's gun law nullification fantasy

2013-05-23 12:24:00

Nullification fever is spreading across the rural counties along the Mason-Dixon Line, with Cecil, Harford and Carroll counties passing resolutions in the last month declaring their view that Maryland's new gun control law is unconstitutional. Cecil's...

So much for messianic leadership

2013-05-23 00:00:00

Although there's still a great deal to be learned about the scandals and controversies swirling around the White House like so many ominous dorsal fins in the surf, the nature of President Barack Obama's bind is becoming clear. The best defenses of his...

Ben Carson's remarks 'denigrated' homosexuals [Letter]

2013-05-22 17:47:00

I have to disagree with Diane Brown ("Only closed minds stifle opposing viewpoints, May 16) on both her key points about Ben Carson's remarks on marriage equality and the opposition to him giving the commencement speech at Johns Hopkins University this...

Beretta has no plans to leave, yet

2013-05-20 14:35:00

Despite Beretta's threats that the company would leave Maryland if new gun laws were passed and signed by Gov. Martin O'Malley, Beretta USA has no current plans to abandon its headquarters�in Prince George's County.� In a statement sent to The Baltimore...

Sneak peek: Ads supporting gun law set to air this week

2013-05-20 07:33:00

A hunter, a mother and a minister are featured in new advertisements touting Maryland's new gun law, which was signed last week and represents one of the nation's most sweeping pieces of gun-control legislation passed this year. The ads, released in...

NRA draws wrong conclusions from Boston

2013-05-21 09:49:00

In the days and weeks after the Boston Marathon bombings, the National Rifle Association has repeatedly stated that many Bostonians who did not possess guns probably wished that they had them in their homes during the tense "shelter in place" manhunt....

O'Malley and Obama can't resist fixing what's not broken

2013-05-17 11:30:00

Why is it that since the current president has been in office everything that is proposed by his or Gov. Martin O'Malley's office has had to be a major change? We've had an "overhaul" of the finest health care system in the world. We've had "sweeping"...

Carroll commissioners to take stand against gun control

2013-05-17 04:00:00

The Board of Carroll County Commissioners will host a public forum Wednesday to discuss and possibly vote on a resolution opposing the state's recently passed Firearm Safety Act of 2013. "The Second Amendment is not ambiguous," Commissioner Richard...

O'Malley signs gun bill

2013-05-16 10:10:00

Gov. Martin O'Malley on Thursday signed a gun-control bill that is among the country's most sweeping legislative responses to the December mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. The law bans the sale of assault-style rifles, including the AR-15 used in the...

Delegate urges Carroll residents to oppose rain tax, gun control measures

2013-05-17 10:12:00

Carroll County residents can expect to see the county's proposed "rain tax" structure within the next month-and-a-half, but Del. Justin Ready urged residents to support their local officials as they fight the new fee and regulations from the Firearm...

"Arrested Development" was never afraid to take poke fun at current events (think: the Iraq war and the PATRIOT Act). That means six years of headlines peppered into the new 15 episodes.

2013-05-22 17:36:00

Gov. Martin O'Malley, center, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, second left, and Speaker of the House Michael E. Busch, right, signed SB 281, gun-control bill into law during the final bill signing ceremony of the year at the State House.

2013-05-16 00:00:00

Catasauqua police had to use their stun guns to control a 41-year-old man who was resisting arrest early Saturday, according to court records.

2013-05-13 00:00:00