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• Ex-NRA Execs Fear Attorney Is Shielding LaPierre at the Group’s Expense November 24, 2020
  In early 2018, the National Rifle Association, alarmed by growing scrutiny from oversight agencies in New York State, hired attorney William A. Brewer III and his firm to fend off the threat. Rather than compromise, Brewer attacked. Today, the NRA — once considered the most powerful interest group in American politics — faces the prospect […]
• 7 Ways Biden Could Go It Alone on Gun Violence Prevention November 18, 2020
  President-elect Joe Biden campaigned on one of the most extensive gun reform agendas in American history. He pledged to ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, institute a voluntary gun buy-back program, and direct more than $900 million in funding to community-based violence intervention programs. Biden won’t be able to do […]
• ‘I Want Them to See That Someone Cares About Them’ November 14, 2020
  On the first Monday in October, three men came calling for David Ross at his office, located in the University of Maryland’s Medical Center campus in downtown Baltimore. All three men had survived gunshot wounds, and their visits to Ross, a licensed social worker at the hospital’s Violence Intervention Program, could mean that they were […]