Posted on 03/07/2013 7:50:46 AM PST by EXCH54FE
And now, for Maryland’s other gun bills - - all 78, and counting.
Hundreds of gun-rights advocates descended on Annapolis Tuesday — but for a change, not to protest Gov. Martin O’Malley’s (D) planned gun-control legislation. At least, not directly.
After more than 45 hours of hearings and debate on O’Malley’s plan in recent weeks, the legislature turned its attention on Tuesday to scores of other bills that lawmakers have piled on in hopes of passing them alongside the governor’s.
One would require all gun owners in Maryland to get liability insurance. Another would force them to lock up firearms at home. Yet others would heavily tax ammunition; force gun owners to report lost or stolen firearms; outlaw exotics bullets, and further restrict access to firearms by the mentally ill.
On the Republican side, dozens more seek to counter O’Malley’s plan with bills intended to water down the governor’s legislation. One measure would carve out exemptions to restrictions for armored car drivers, another would do the same for police and military. Several would undo some or all of the state’s restrictive concealed carry law.
“I want to know what other constitutional right you’d dare tax,” asked Del. Michael D. Smigiel (R-Cecil), questioning Del. Jon S. Cardin (D-Baltimore) about his proposal to add a surcharge on firearm purchases and permit applications to increase funding for mental health programs.
Cardin called the idea, backed by mental health professionals, “common sense.”
O’Malley’s bill, which passed the Senate last month with more than 40 amendments, remains the main piece of gun-control legislation.
It would require gun owners to submit to fingerprinting, training and additional background checks to obtain a license to buy a gun. It would also outlaw sales of many semi-automatic rifles, classifying them as assault weapons.
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And the NRA wonders why, as an endowment member, I've not donated in several years.
The ubiquitous .308 can pierce through any body armor at less than 50 yds. Does that mean this popular round is "armor piercing" and thus subject to a ban?
The idea of a limiting "armor piercing rounds" is the camel nose in the tent. The progressives know that most body armor can be compromised, and as such, this is really an end-around to ban all ammunition, period.
For the first time in my life I’m really, really ashamed of maryland. Of course I was only born there but never lived there. But still. How disgusting that another one of the places that gave this country it’s start has sunk this low. Sad, sad day when this kind of crap is pushed harder than any other type of legislation. Kinda makes you think there must be some sort of agenda. Nah! That’d be some sort of conspiracy thinking.
Roger that. Once the get the camel toe under the tent, who knows where it will end. Uh, we do. There are any number of rounds out there that will “penetrate armor” that aren’t “armor piercing” rounds. (But it’s okay for dhs to have hollow points right?) I get that the NRA thinks that they have to “give” a little but that ain’t the case. Hold the line and take a stand and just say “NO!” Once the radical left wing extremist demokkkrat scumbags get a grip they are like pit bulls. Be wary. We don’t think like they do. You know slimy back stabbing d-bags.
I personally believe we should be permitted to have every weapon available to the military. Like the Declaration of Independence states that we have a RIGHT to life, liberty, and the PURSUIT of happiness, so should we have the RIGHT to protect ourselves, our families, and our properties with any weapon available out there. That doesn’t specifically mean that we have the right to procure it for free, it just means that if we have the means to do so, we should be allowed.
If a billionaire wants to own a private island off of Cape Hatteras and build a fleet of naval destroyers, more power to him. If Steve Forbes wants to own a decommissioned aircraft carrier and some mothballed P51 Mustangs, more power to him. If an enterprising young engineer designs an efficient nuclear weapon and detonates it on a remote uninhabited island in the middle of the south Pacific, there should be no intervention from the US military except to maybe hire him to help them build the same.
Likewise, if I want to own a select-fire M4 and an underground magazine of Composition 4 and RDX, there should be no laws prohibiting me to do so.
That, my friends, is the very definition of liberty and personal responsibility. We should not fear free, private citizens who own these things, we should seek to befriend them.
Maryland is mentally ill
Roger that! I believe that is what the founders intent was. That, “we the people” should have the ability to defend this nation from enemies foreign and domestic. That would mean the availablity to possess weapons typically in use my the military. Which was also never intended in the beginning. No standing Army. Impossible in today’s world of course. Considering the huge amount of firearms background checks since hussein was first immaculated and you gotta wonder why dhs “needs” 2700 MRAPS and why the “need” all those hollow point rounds. Why do the “need” 7000 actual “assault weapons”? Why does the tsa “need” to stop and do random checks of vehicles on the highway? Nothing to see here. Move along. 4th amendment? Why do you “need” that?
Here Here ! I’ve often thought the same things. like all people when faced with the foaming-at-the-mouth insanity that is Progressivism, People think that “Compromise” is the “Only way” to protect our rights and our nature as a country.
And that’s bullshit. Where was the NRA before ? Where was the NRAILA when the Connecticut lawyer carried a gun into the theater after the Colorado attacks ? They avoid things like the plague - acting only when their membership ranks are in peril.
They don’t do “What’s right” they do “What’s probably going to work”. And we need to stop this both from our organizations and from ourselves.
Were those kids inside a Tank when they were shot?
When I was a kid, my older Brother had a whole bunch of Armored Piercing Bullets and some Tracers. To my knowledge, he never got into a firefight with an Armored Battalion.
Remember the old saying, give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.
{{sigh}} I love Maryland. I was born and raised here, and I now live within walking distance of my beloved beautiful Chesapeake Bay. This state is truly full of natural beauty and many wonderful people.
But, given the Rat stronghold that it has now become, I would pick up and leave were it not for the fact that my children and my grandchildren and many extended family members live here.
These Demob!tches really know how to pile on.
We’re screwed.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
I agree.
The 2A is not just about firearms, which both right and left would have all believe the way they run on about “guns”.
It says, the right to keep and bear ARMS, which is anything for defense. Not just mere handguns.
Eastern, Northern, and Western Maryland need to secede from Central Maryland. We are being ruled by 3 or 4 counties in this state. How did West Virginia go about leaving Virginia?
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