Perhaps even before the bodies of the five victims in Thursday’s shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis had been removed from the crime scene, Everytown for Gun Safety was making a pitch for money, over the name of Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Everytown is the […]
Maryland, Delaware Shootings: Another Gun Control, Court System Fail
Wednesday’s investigation of fatal shootings in Maryland and Delaware and the subsequent arrest of the suspect and revelations about his criminal background unintentionally demonstrate yet another failure of gun control laws and the court system. Various news agencies have reported that the suspect, 37-year-old Radee L. Prince, had a criminal history that included burglary convictions […]
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Maryland Semi-Auto Ban
An en-banc panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a ban on so-called “assault weapons” in Maryland, with a 10-4 majority opinion stating that such firearms are not protected by the Second Amendment, a position that gun rights advocates consider “absurd.” Judge Robert King, a Bill Clinton appointee, wrote in the […]