Maryland legislators are working on a plan expand prohibitions and penalties in an effort to prevent an unsupervised minor from accessing a firearm, but the effort appears to be stalled as the General Assembly enters its final two weeks.
Gun violence has been brought to the forefront of the national conversation once again after the recent mass shootings in Atlanta and Boulder, Colorado.
Lawmakers working on the effort are calling their bill “Jaelynn’s Law,” named after 16-year-old Jaelynn Rose Willey, who was killed in a shooting at Great Mills High School in St. Mary’s County in 2018.
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