City of Baltimore - File #: 08-0082R

• File #: 08-0082R
• Version: 0
• Name: Request for State Legislation - Gun Crimes - Increase in Penalty
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 10/27/2008
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 10/27/2008
• Title: Request for State Legislation - Gun Crimes - Increase in Penalty FOR the purpose of requesting the Honorable Chairs and Members of the Baltimore City Senate and House Delegations to the 2009 Maryland General Assembly to introduce legislation to increase the penalty for all felony gun crimes to a sentence of not more than 20 years imprisonment.
• Sponsors: President Young, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, James B. Kraft, Bill Henry, Warren Branch, Helen L. Holton, Rochelle Spector, Mary Pat Clarke, Sharon Green Middleton, Robert Curran, Edward Reisinger
• Indexes: Crimes, Guns, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/27/2008	0	City Council	Introduced
10/27/2008	0	City Council	Amended
10/27/2008	0	City Council	Advanced to 2nd Reader on same day
10/27/2008	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Young

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Request for State Legislation - Gun Crimes - Increase in Penalty

FOR the purpose of requesting the Honorable Chairs and Members of the Baltimore City Senate and House Delegations to the 2009 Maryland General Assembly to introduce legislation to increase the penalty for all felony gun crimes to a sentence of not more than 20 years imprisonment.
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Testimony of Baltimore City officials to Committees of the 2008 Maryland General Assembly, which introduced the Baltimore City Administration’s legislative agenda “cracking down on gun offenders and illegal guns”, states that “Baltimore City’s GunStat initiative, which convenes city, state, and federal law enforcement, prosecution, and probation partners to prioritize and track felony gun offenders, has identified that individuals charged with gun felonies are likely to have prior gun arrests, are out on bail, or are on parole and probation.”

In January 2008, The Abell Report found that on an average, Baltimore City police seize or recover close to 10 guns a day. From January 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007, the Department used the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and Explosives (AFT) to trace the origin of 3,131 firearms – 1,990 of which were traceable. Of these, 1,533 were first sold more than 3 years prior to trace; 347 were less than 3 years old...