Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld told me in 2018 that he began to realize that seizing guns was a bit like fighting the drug war. It felt “endless,” he explained. “In Baltimore, at the peak of when we were seizing guns—when we were really effective going after guns and trying to get guns off … Read more
You probably didn’t see this on the CBS Evening News or CNN. Dante Barksale, a Baltimore anti-gun activist, met his maker after someone shot him in the head while he worked to keep guns from out of the hands of the law-abiding in “The Greatest City in America.” He was shot in the head in … Read more
By Regina Garcia Cano, AP Starting Friday, the roughly 600,000 people living in Baltimore will be constantly recorded whenever they step out under the open sky. Marvin L. Cheatham Sr., for one, knows he could be watched as he goes to a doctor’s appointment or visits friends. He’ll be spied upon in his back yard, … Read more
This is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal and legislative news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. For a deeper dive into the topics discussed here, check out this week in gun rights at FPC. Pandemic sales surge ravages the ammo market Crises — real ones — remind us that the world is not a … Read more
A 13-year-old boy was killed and five other people were injured following a shooting outside of a dance party being held at the Triple Threat Elite Dance studio in Roseland, Maryland.https://t.co/uObPf2kPSy — KFI AM 640 (@KFIAM640) March 10, 2020 In Rosedale, Maryland a 13-year old boy was murdered and five other kids – although one … Read more
By CCRKBA Responding to Baltimore Mayor Bernard “Jack” Young’s argument that he isn’t responsible for the city’s rising homicide rate because he’s “not committing the murders,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today fired right back, “Law-abiding gun owners aren’t committing murders, either.” “Yet Mayor Young and his fellow Democrats … Read more
Depending on who’s doing the counting, Baltimore consistently shows up among the most violent cities in the US. Charm City’s known for its crab cakes, its public corruption and the number of people shot to death on the city’s streets every year. With a record like that, you might think a cash-strapped city with huge … Read more
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