The Nation - News from June 1, 1988
A committee of gun owners filed petitions to block Maryland’s pioneering ban on sales of Saturday night specials or cheap handguns and to force a public vote on the gun control bill in November. Fred Griisser, chairman of the Maryland Committee Against the Gun Ban, submitted petitions to the secretary of state that he said contained signatures of more than 22,000 voters opposed to the ban. The committee will need 33,044 valid signatures by the end of June to force the bill to referendum.
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