guns

Tomorrow Governor O'Malley will sign into law new restrictions on guns in Maryland. We talk to the woman leading a referendum drive against the bill and to a researcher who studies gun laws across the country.

Tom Hall talks to the winner of Washington College's Sophie Kerr prize, the largest undergraduate literary award in America.

Preakness is here Saturday. What will you be serving at your Preakness Party? Sascha Wolhandler has some ideas.

The Maryland Morning Culture Calendar: treats for aesthetes!

April 2, 2013

A federal appeals court has reversed a Baltimore judge’s ruling on Maryland’s handgun permitting law, saying the state can insist an applicant show “good and substantial reason” to carry a gun.

Governor O’Malley has proposed one of the most aggressive gun reform packages in the nation, prompting hundreds of protestors to turn out for a hearing on them last week in Annapolis. In another of our series on guns in the wake of the Newtown massacre, we return to the debate on the governor’s proposals with Matt Daley, lobbyist for the Maryland State Rifle and Pistol Association, and Casey Anderson, spokesman for Maryland Against Gun Violence.

February 11, 2013

Mental health has played a significant role in the gun control debate over the last several months. Governor Martin O’Malley’s proposed gun control legislation, which had its first committee hearing last week, includes new mental health provisions. How does it handle the gun rights of the mentally ill?

Another in our series of discussions about the Newtown massacre, the focus this time on the massive number of firearms in the United States -- and how we reconcile the Second Amendment right to bear arms with the right to be safe from gun violence. A conversation with former New York Times correspondent and editor Craig E. Whitney, author of "Living With Guns: A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment."

More than 5,000 Marylanders got permits to carry guns last year; they had to show police they had a “good and substantial reason” to so.  That may be about to change – we’ll discuss the implications with a gun policy researcher.

Then – did you know there's a school to learn how to save the Bay? We talk with the coordinator of The Watershed Steward Academy in Anne Arundel County, which trains community leaders to help their neighborhoods save THEIR tributary.

And – J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Cockpit in Court's new production of Sunset Boulevard.

A historical, cultural and legal take on US-Mexico border crossings and how the politically-charged immigration debate in the US -- and the the botched gun-smuggling investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious -- has effected the long relationship between the two countries. Steven Bender, professor at the Seattle University of Law, argues for more explicit and compassionate cross-border cooperation. He is author of “Run for the Border: Vice and Virtue in the US–Mexico Border Crossings.”