Guns & Weapons

For the first time, the D.C. and Maryland attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against gun stores. News4’s Mauricio Casillas reports.

Three gun shops that sold dozens of firearms to a man who trafficked the weapons in and around Washington, D.C., are facing a new lawsuit filed jointly Tuesday by attorneys general for Maryland and the nation’s capital. D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb says at least nine of those guns have now been found at crime scenes and or with people...

An MPD officer is dead after a gun was dropped in a storm drain by a suspicious man, and the gun went off as the officer tried to retrieve it. News4’s Jackie Bensen and Derrick Ward report.

A federal appeals court has upheld Maryland’s handgun licensing requirements. A majority of judges from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday rejected an argument from gun-rights activists that the state law violated the Second Amendment by making it too difficult for people to obtain guns. The court’s full roster of judges agreed to hear the case after...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld Maryland’s decade-old ban on military-style firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons.

A new national divide is emerging among states over whether to track sales by gun stores.