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Maryland Announces Pair of Gun Bills

February 15th, 2018 by WCBC Radio

Maryland Democrats have announced a pair of measures they say will help protect residents from gun violence. One of the measures highlighted this session would ban bump stocks. Those are devices that can increase the rate of fire of a semi-automatic rifle to that approaching the firing rate of a fully automatic weapon. Bump stocks were used in the mass shooting in Las Vegas last year that killed 58 people and wounded more than 800. Another measure would repeal the state's Handgun Permit Review Board and turn its functions over to administrative law judges. While some hunting groups are opposed to the gun control measures, House Speaker Michael Busch said these proposals are designed to protect Maryland from violent criminals- and not to infringe on the rights of sportsmen…

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