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By Patch Staff It was a big week for Maryland, with a visit by the first lady and a heads up for a sixth casino in the state.

Utahns made an all-time high 23,000 gun purchases in December, the same month as the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

The Homewood village board addressed firearm sales following the swearing in of returning Mayor Rich Hofeld and four returning trustees: Barbara Dawkins, Anne Colton, Ray Robertson, and Jay Heiferman.

Saul Cornell was a guest on WAMU's "Diane Rehm Show" to talk about his book, A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America , published by Oxford University .. Read More Saul Cornell was a guest on WAMU's "Diane Rehm Show" to talk about his book, A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the ... (more)

In the face of the outrageous IRS intimidation scandal now sweeping across America, gun control advocates are changing their tune.

Two of the most controversial bills Maryland state lawmakers grappled with this session became law Thursday.

Most of Colorado's elected sheriffs are trying to strike new gun restrictions with a federal lawsuit against the state that argues the laws violate the right to bear arms.

A group that supports gun control filed suit Thursday against a north Georgia town that recently passed a law requiring gun ownership that it said is mostly symbolic.

The 146,949 background checks processed for would-be gun buyers increased by 69,628 from January to March this year compared to that same time span last year, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation's latest data.

Colorado sheriffs upset with gun restrictions adopted in the aftermath of last year's mass shootings filed a federal lawsuit Friday, challenging the regulations as unconstitutional.

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In the aftermath of the gut-wrenching massacre of 20 elementary school children and six adult staff members, last December, at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in ways big and small Americans' cultural views on guns have remained the same.

With session-ending budget and tax negotiations stalled Friday, the Senate found time to pass a bill barring state dollars from going toward advocating gun control.

The Chippewa Valley Council, Boy Scouts of America was awarded a $25,000 grant from the NRA Foundation in order to make improvements to the shooting range at Camp Phillips.

The Common Sense Campaign, a self-described constitutionalist group based in Montgomery, Ala., aspired to be a smaller version of the National Rifle Association - powerful and influential, without having to pay federal income taxes.

The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against Nelson, Ga., a small town north of Atlanta.

The group claims the law is unconstitutional. It contends the Second Amendment doesn't require anyone to have a gun.

Sales of guns and ammunition rose after President Obama took office in 2008, and they went through the roof starting late last year, when a school shooting led to a push for new gun control measures.

The Senate passed legislation 24-5 on Thursday handing the task to sheriffs. The measure now heads to Gov.

Maryland State Senate President Thomas "Mike" Miller Jr. , left, and Speaker of the House Michael Busch , right, flank Maryland Gov.