Petition drive to overturn Maryland gun-control law fails

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A petition drive that sought to derail Maryland’s new gun-control law has failed, a state official said Saturday.

Opponents of the law did not turn in an initial batch of signatures by the deadline at midnight on Friday, meaning the law championed by Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) will stand, said Steve Ackerman, a spokesman for the Maryland Secretary of State’s Office.

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To comply with a constitutional requirement, petition-gatherers had to present the first third of a required 55,736 signatures to the state on Friday. If that threshold were crossed, the remainder would be due a month later.

Leaders of Free State Petitions, the group coordinating the gun-control petition, said little about their progress on Friday.

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