Today's Washington Post featured an article regarding the new push by Gov. Glendenning to seek various means to crush the legitimiate rights of citizens of "the Free State" to exercise their 2nd amendment rights. He is quoted as saying a "new level of outrage will provide support for gun control proposals." Yeah, well... I am up to a new level of outrage against this buffoon and his idiocy. Allow me to share from his blather....
He requires that all guns be sold with built-in locks within the next year and "smart gun" technology before 2003. The technology does not yet exist, nor will an illegal and coercive , exhortionist push by a deluded, ignoramus cause such technology to magically appear in his lap overnight.
With an attorney general who wishes to completely ban all handguns, it is no wonder that we are in such a heaping mound of bovine fertilizer? Where are the gunowners in MD? How can we fight these folks and get our own installed? Is MD going to go the way of the District?
Baltimore is well on its way to another record year of murders despite Glendenning and Curran's draconian gun control schemes and existing laws. Maybe if they got their head out of their @$$-- and focused on the problem of criminals and not the inaminate objects we would get somewhere.
A Carroll County legislator is pushing for a shall-issue permit system with 12 hours of training. BRAVO!!! It is almost impossible under the current discretionary system to get a CCW in MD. I work in a high-risk business that handles a ton (yes, I mean a ton) a cash and I likely would not qualify to get a permit. The fact of the matter is that the State Police are so far up G's behind they cannot get the air into their nostrils, let alone perform their duties.
This Rep. Ferguson is a bright star in MD. I support him 100%. He is also pushing for anti-lawsuit legislation. With Beretta USA being in MD, this just might pass. I pray to God it does.
Then we have Rep. Hoffman who wishes to introduce a bill banning guns as prizes in raffles. Since when does the government have the right to dictate what prizes are given up in a charity event? This reeks of Big Brother interventionism. Would we have this sort of outcry if we were raffling off a case of rare wine, or a lifetime subscription to Playboy? I'd like to see us folks buy more of these raffle tickets and say UP YOURS!
Glendenning's task force is a farce. It is stacked with the most rabid antis he could drag up out of the cesspits that pass for think tanks and social institutions in this neo-fascist state. If I recall correctly, not a single member of this enlightened group is affiliated with or has intimate knowledge of firearms.
The Governor/Fuhrer wishes to spend $3 million of our record surplus on smart gun technology. His idea is to pass it on to academicians and whiz kids in labs. I think this guy has misplaced his prescriptions and gotten his Geritol mixed up with his Propecia or Viagra or whatever other psychotropics he takes. Here is a novel idea, cut our taxes and give us the money back. I can show you how to have a smart, safe gun for a hell of a lot less. It's called NRA Safe Shooter classes!
Further, this state is remarkably inept at handling existing laws. Between January and March of this past year over 49 convicted felons purchased guns because the State Police was out to lunch. Let's not mention the half dozen shootings because the police did not enforcethe domestic violence laws.
If there are any folks on this board active in MD, get in touch with me. I am pissed off enough at these folks to up my donations to pro-gun groups considerably.
I bought two guns a couple of weeks ago, I intend to buy a pair this week. Thank God, MD has a collector exemption to the monthly rationing scheme they have imposed on us.
[This message has been edited by Bulldozer (edited January 25, 2000).]
He requires that all guns be sold with built-in locks within the next year and "smart gun" technology before 2003. The technology does not yet exist, nor will an illegal and coercive , exhortionist push by a deluded, ignoramus cause such technology to magically appear in his lap overnight.
With an attorney general who wishes to completely ban all handguns, it is no wonder that we are in such a heaping mound of bovine fertilizer? Where are the gunowners in MD? How can we fight these folks and get our own installed? Is MD going to go the way of the District?
Baltimore is well on its way to another record year of murders despite Glendenning and Curran's draconian gun control schemes and existing laws. Maybe if they got their head out of their @$$-- and focused on the problem of criminals and not the inaminate objects we would get somewhere.
A Carroll County legislator is pushing for a shall-issue permit system with 12 hours of training. BRAVO!!! It is almost impossible under the current discretionary system to get a CCW in MD. I work in a high-risk business that handles a ton (yes, I mean a ton) a cash and I likely would not qualify to get a permit. The fact of the matter is that the State Police are so far up G's behind they cannot get the air into their nostrils, let alone perform their duties.
This Rep. Ferguson is a bright star in MD. I support him 100%. He is also pushing for anti-lawsuit legislation. With Beretta USA being in MD, this just might pass. I pray to God it does.
Then we have Rep. Hoffman who wishes to introduce a bill banning guns as prizes in raffles. Since when does the government have the right to dictate what prizes are given up in a charity event? This reeks of Big Brother interventionism. Would we have this sort of outcry if we were raffling off a case of rare wine, or a lifetime subscription to Playboy? I'd like to see us folks buy more of these raffle tickets and say UP YOURS!
Glendenning's task force is a farce. It is stacked with the most rabid antis he could drag up out of the cesspits that pass for think tanks and social institutions in this neo-fascist state. If I recall correctly, not a single member of this enlightened group is affiliated with or has intimate knowledge of firearms.
The Governor/Fuhrer wishes to spend $3 million of our record surplus on smart gun technology. His idea is to pass it on to academicians and whiz kids in labs. I think this guy has misplaced his prescriptions and gotten his Geritol mixed up with his Propecia or Viagra or whatever other psychotropics he takes. Here is a novel idea, cut our taxes and give us the money back. I can show you how to have a smart, safe gun for a hell of a lot less. It's called NRA Safe Shooter classes!
Further, this state is remarkably inept at handling existing laws. Between January and March of this past year over 49 convicted felons purchased guns because the State Police was out to lunch. Let's not mention the half dozen shootings because the police did not enforcethe domestic violence laws.
If there are any folks on this board active in MD, get in touch with me. I am pissed off enough at these folks to up my donations to pro-gun groups considerably.
I bought two guns a couple of weeks ago, I intend to buy a pair this week. Thank God, MD has a collector exemption to the monthly rationing scheme they have imposed on us.
[This message has been edited by Bulldozer (edited January 25, 2000).]