Well the taskforce has given the Gov. their recommendations. This will be law in MD soon.
DRAFT TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATIONS MOVE FORWARD
(November 19, 1999) Glendening's Task Force on Childproof Guns has started the process of polishing its report and recommendations for new gun controls in Maryland. At a working session today in Annapolis the group voted to advocate steps such as:
As of January 1, 2003, ban transfer of any handgun in Maryland that is not a "smart gun" having an active mechanism to authenticate who is the user (e.g. fingerprint or retina scan.) The target date had been 2005, until Bonnie Kirkland, one of Glendening's political goons and advisor, agitated for the earlier date, conspicuous by it being the first likely target for after 2002 elections (giving the maximum time for voters to forget the effect before another election.)
As an interim measure, to serve until the 2003 ban goes into effect, the state will ban sale of handguns that do not have an integral (mechanical) locking mechanism.
Ban commercial sale of any firearm to anyone who cannot demonstrate evidence of having taken a "firearms safety class" as developed to standards set in the future by a police commission. According to discussion at the work session, this may be a class that gun owner would need to repeat regularly in order to make future purchases ... or, if some members have their way in the final report, in order to maintain possession of firearms.
Give tax credits for purchase of gun safes (but explicitly not for trigger locks) in order to allow the Governor to claim he gave the firearms community something "we" wanted in the deal, even though the only proponent is the Maryland Licensed Firearms Dealers Association, aka NRA Board of Director Sandy Abrams.
Open juvenile records in order to ban sale of a handgun until at least age 30 to anyone who had committed crime as a minor.
Mandate that all firearms confiscated by police be destroyed, independent of value, lawful ownership or collectibility... unless of course the firearm is desired for use by police.
Mandate "ballistic fingerprinting" before point of sale for all new handguns. This means you or the manufacturer would need to provide both a bullet and case fired from the gun in order to be allowed to buy the gun. Those items would be sent to Maryland State Police in order to be analyzed and placed in their computers to help crime forensics experts uniquely identify crime guns.
Mandate the collection of data and information about the "cost of gun violence in Maryland" presumably to be used for propaganda to sell future gun control proposals.
Did the Task Force reject ANY recommendation put on the table? Just one: a proposal to reduce the fee for your background check and registration when purchasing a handgun.
DRAFT TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATIONS MOVE FORWARD
(November 19, 1999) Glendening's Task Force on Childproof Guns has started the process of polishing its report and recommendations for new gun controls in Maryland. At a working session today in Annapolis the group voted to advocate steps such as:
As of January 1, 2003, ban transfer of any handgun in Maryland that is not a "smart gun" having an active mechanism to authenticate who is the user (e.g. fingerprint or retina scan.) The target date had been 2005, until Bonnie Kirkland, one of Glendening's political goons and advisor, agitated for the earlier date, conspicuous by it being the first likely target for after 2002 elections (giving the maximum time for voters to forget the effect before another election.)
As an interim measure, to serve until the 2003 ban goes into effect, the state will ban sale of handguns that do not have an integral (mechanical) locking mechanism.
Ban commercial sale of any firearm to anyone who cannot demonstrate evidence of having taken a "firearms safety class" as developed to standards set in the future by a police commission. According to discussion at the work session, this may be a class that gun owner would need to repeat regularly in order to make future purchases ... or, if some members have their way in the final report, in order to maintain possession of firearms.
Give tax credits for purchase of gun safes (but explicitly not for trigger locks) in order to allow the Governor to claim he gave the firearms community something "we" wanted in the deal, even though the only proponent is the Maryland Licensed Firearms Dealers Association, aka NRA Board of Director Sandy Abrams.
Open juvenile records in order to ban sale of a handgun until at least age 30 to anyone who had committed crime as a minor.
Mandate that all firearms confiscated by police be destroyed, independent of value, lawful ownership or collectibility... unless of course the firearm is desired for use by police.
Mandate "ballistic fingerprinting" before point of sale for all new handguns. This means you or the manufacturer would need to provide both a bullet and case fired from the gun in order to be allowed to buy the gun. Those items would be sent to Maryland State Police in order to be analyzed and placed in their computers to help crime forensics experts uniquely identify crime guns.
Mandate the collection of data and information about the "cost of gun violence in Maryland" presumably to be used for propaganda to sell future gun control proposals.
Did the Task Force reject ANY recommendation put on the table? Just one: a proposal to reduce the fee for your background check and registration when purchasing a handgun.