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A pair of deer are seen on Beach Drive in Kensington, only hours after Montgomery County Council Member George Leventhal explained his decision to vote on bill to loosen firearm restrictions in an attempt to give hunters and farm owners more flexibility to deal with the county’s overabundance of deer. He referred to his accident last month in which he hit a a deer on the Capital Beltway near Connecticut Avenue, explaining that he believed that, even without the incident, he would have voted in favor of the legislation which passed unanimously on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 in Rockville, Maryland. Greg Whitesell/Examiner