Dixon, state?s attorney testify for gun legislation

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon and State?s Attorney Patricia Jessamy testified Thursday for four bills on firearms they said would help keep gun offenders off the street.

In prepared testimony for the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, Dixon noted that half thehomicide suspects in the city last year had a prior gun offense, and 20 percent of them had had multiple gun offenses. Four out five homicides in the city are committed with guns.