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...opponents to paint the group as wantonly indifferent to public safety, the N.R.A. has found itself repeatedly battling police organizations, whose leaders complain that they are being outgunned by gangs and drug dealers. In 1988 it suffered its first statewide referendum loss. Maryland voters that year refused to repeal a law that would allow the banning of some kinds of handguns. This was despite an N.R.A. campaign that cost $6.6 million, nine times as much as the opposition spent...
...opinion delivered to the council last night, city attorneys said the city was not in any serious danger of losing a court battle. Duputy City Solicitor Donald A. Drisdell told the council that most claims against the repeal would be groundless, because it simply returned the rent control laws to their previous state...
...repeal tonight does is put us back from a written law to an unwritten law," said Walsh. "We're in a state now, not only of a lot of potential lawsuits, but a state of confusion...
...while the placards proclaiming that "Landlords are an endangered species" had fallen by the wayside at Monday's City Council meeting, a vigorous debate on repeal of the "conflicts ordinance" passed in December by the last council proved that the small property owners are still a group to be reckoned with in the city...
...council's first weeks have done little to decrease the antagonism between SPOA's 550 members and the city's more numerous rent control supporters. In an interview Monday, Natale said SPOA planned to sue the city following the repeal of the conflicts ordinance...