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from WBAL

http://www.thewbalchannel.com/politics/2379899/detail.htmlMagazine Honors Curran Among Nation's Best AGs

POSTED: 2:47 p.m. EDT August 4, 2003

BALTIMORE -- Maryland's attorney general was chronicled in a nationwide magazine this past weekend.

Parade magazine singled out Attorney General Joseph Curran, D-Maryland, as one of the best attorneys general in the nation.

The magazine cited Curran's fight to bring an end to the death penalty and push for handgun control in Maryland as just some of the reasons, 11 News reported.

When asked who his heroes are, Curran (pictured, right) told the magazine they include his father and President John F. Kennedy.

Curran, 72, is the nation's most senior attorney general who has served five consecutive terms.

Copyright 2003 by TheWBALChannel.com.

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Curran wants to end civilian gun ownership

http://www.oag.state.md.us/lawenforcement.htm
Disarming Gun Traffickers
Attorney General Curran's initiative to crackdown on gun trafficking and illegal purchases of handguns, Operation Crime Gun, has resulted in dozens of prosecutions in the short time since its inception. In October 1999, Curran issued, A Farewell to Arms, which studied the health epidemic created by the terrific number of guns in the United States. Curran created the report to create a public discussion about the issue of gun safety, and to gradually change the public's attitudes regarding the proliferation of guns in our society. Download a PDF copy of A Farewell to Arms (728 KB, 65 pages).
http://www.oag.state.md.us/Press/guns.pdf

In 2000, Curran participated in the Million Mom March to call for sensible gun control legislation and in 2001, the Office worked with a national non-profit organization, PAX, to enlist the support of the Maryland Academy of Pediatrics to promote Asking Saves Kids (ASK), urging parents to ask if there is an unlocked, loaded, gun in the home where their children play.