A Maryland firearms dealer that Baltimore leaders said intensified its gun violence crisis between 2019 and 2022 owes the city $62 million in damages, a jury said recently.

A statement from the city called it “the largest ever verdict a gun dealer defendant has been dealt in American history.”

Three years ago, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott (D) and the city council filed a lawsuit accusing Hanover Armory, a gun retailer based in Hanover, Maryland; and Polymer80, the once leading manufacturer of ghost gun parts based in Nevada, of public nuisance and negligence for selling ghost gun kits without proper background checks, boosting violent crime and widespread suffering across the city, officials said. Advertisement

Ghost gun recoveries in Baltimore rose by nearly 1,500 percent between 201

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