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We can't let the pro-gun zealots win
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave politicians everywhere some sound advice on gun control recently. Defending New York’s tough new measures against critics who charge that the state has exceeded its regulatory authority, he said: “Yes,...
Tags: Firearms, Barack Obama, Gun Control, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Politics
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New York's assault weapon registration begins
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Key measures of New York's tough new gun law kicked in Monday, with owners of firearms now reclassified as assault weapons required to start registering the firearms and new limits on the number of bullets allowed in magazines....
Tags: Firearms, Adam Lanza, Politics, Periodicals, Laws
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New gun registration requirements take effect in New York state
Even as Congress prepares to debate new gun legislation, New York’s tougher gun control provisions became effective on Monday, the latest example of how the issue has broadened into a battle on the state as well as federal level. In the wake of...
Tags: Firearms, Adam Lanza, Politics, Periodicals, Weaponry
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Connecticut governor signs tough gun-control law
Four months after a lone gunman shattered the normal morning activities of a Connecticut elementary school in a fearsome shooting spree of 154 bullets in less than five minutes, that state’s governor on Thursday signed a tough gun-control law, the...
Tags: Firearms, Politics, Periodicals, Lobbying, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Few states find narrow route to gun control laws
From Colorado to Connecticut, a handful of very different states have advanced new gun control laws over opposition that has made such legislation a struggle nationally and a non-starter in most legislatures. How did they do it? Culture and...
Tags: University of Illinois Springfield, Firearms, Politics, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Government
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US arms control advocates must show they like guns
NEW YORK (AP) — Lobbying for gun control in the United States often means proving how much you like firearms. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose state recently passed some of the strictest gun control measures in the country, often reminds people...
Tags: Wayne LaPierre, Camp David, Firearms, White House, Politics
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20 years ago, a bomb killed six people at the World Trade Center
Remember this date: Feb. 26, 1993. Twenty years ago on Tuesday, six people died in a terrorist attack at the World Trade Center in New York. Anniversaries are important, for they help set tragedies apart. The philosopher Walter Benjamin once said what...
Tags: Purim, Human Interest, Politics, Explosions, Bombings
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New sheriff of Wall St. is racking up insider trading convictions
NEW YORK — Preet Bharara, the man dubbed the new sheriff of Wall Street, notched another arrest in the government's vast insider trading probe. This time the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan nabbed a top portfolio manager at one of America's...Tags: Politics, Manhattan (New York City), Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Alzheimer's Disease, Insider Trading
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South Carolina Democrats see O'Malley 'rising'
— Gov. Martin O'Malley took the stage Saturday at a high school in this early presidential primary state, telling an auditorium of South Carolina Democrats that his principles worked in Maryland — and they'd work elsewhere. "We're investing...
Tags: Human Interest, Politics, Philosophy, Government, Nikki Haley
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In gauging Maryland's competitiveness, stick to the facts
In his recent State of the State speech, Gov. Martin O'Malley said, "Our story, Maryland's story, is the story of better choices and better results." This is certainly the kind of high rhetorical flourish we have come to expect from state leaders during...
Tags: Personal Income, Annapolis, Regional Authority, Politics, Martin O'Malley
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National Rifle Association chief not happy with Md. gun legislation
waynesboro@herald-mail.comNational Rifle Association President David Keene is unhappy about the gun-control measures passed Wednesday in by the House of Delegates in Maryland. “I’m a Maryland resident, so I’m not very enthused by the way Gov. (Martin) O’...Tags: Firearms, Politics, Government, Assault, Maryland General Assembly
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Lawmaker accused of bribes in NYC mayor race plot
NEW YORK (AP) — For the politically ambitious, running as a Republican is sometimes the best way a Democrat can increase his electoral odds in New York City's crowded mayoral race. Now, a federal prosecutor says one Democratic state lawmaker went...
Tags: Court Preliminary, Politics, Bronx County, Realty, Local Elections
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