I just went to the Associated Gunclubs of Balitmore planning session this weekend. The new Smart Gun Laws are going to the legislature. This is a whole package of laws that includes -
Mandatory Safety Class (License) - Of course no plans have been made about how to implement this and the MD State Police will be setting the standards. No funding either. This will be a license for a handgun that we can only keep in our homes since MD does not allow CCW to ordinary citizens!! A license to keep a gun in my house. Incredible.
The Smart Gun Law that bans all handguns unless they have an INTERNAL locking device and then in 2003 'Smart Gun' Technology.
All gun purchases at gunshows will be treated as regulated weapons purchases and will require the 8 day MD State Police check no matter what kind of gun it is - e.g. .22 Single Shot Rifle.
These are serious issues and if this gets to the legislature floor - we are sunk. This HAS to be stopped in committee. PLEASE write and call your State legislators and the chairmen of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
PLEASE Maryland gunowners - take action and lets get this killed in Committee or we will be as bad off as Kali. It is easier to stop it now because if this passes we will NEVER get it repealed.
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Thane (NRA GOA JPFO SAF CAN)
MD C.A.N.OP
tbellomo@home.com
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"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.
In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains
seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all
must be most aware of change in the air - however slight -
lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
--Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
Mandatory Safety Class (License) - Of course no plans have been made about how to implement this and the MD State Police will be setting the standards. No funding either. This will be a license for a handgun that we can only keep in our homes since MD does not allow CCW to ordinary citizens!! A license to keep a gun in my house. Incredible.
The Smart Gun Law that bans all handguns unless they have an INTERNAL locking device and then in 2003 'Smart Gun' Technology.
All gun purchases at gunshows will be treated as regulated weapons purchases and will require the 8 day MD State Police check no matter what kind of gun it is - e.g. .22 Single Shot Rifle.
These are serious issues and if this gets to the legislature floor - we are sunk. This HAS to be stopped in committee. PLEASE write and call your State legislators and the chairmen of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
PLEASE Maryland gunowners - take action and lets get this killed in Committee or we will be as bad off as Kali. It is easier to stop it now because if this passes we will NEVER get it repealed.
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Thane (NRA GOA JPFO SAF CAN)
MD C.A.N.OP
tbellomo@home.com
http://homes.acmecity.com/thematrix/digital/237/cansite/can.html
www.members.home.net/tbellomo/tbellomo/index.htm
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.
In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains
seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all
must be most aware of change in the air - however slight -
lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
--Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas