Posted on 01/22/2002 9:45:45 PM PST by t-shirt
Interpretation of law allows confiscation
MICHAEL A. SAWYERS
January 17, 2002
Cumberland Times-News Staff Writer
CUMBERLAND -- Under the current interpretation by the Maryland attorney general concerning the confiscation of firearms, citizens who had misdemeanor transgressions at any time in the past could have their guns taken, according to Delegate Kevin Kelly.
Such misdemeanors include cheating, defamation of private persons, unlawful assembly, blasphemy, profanity, common scolding, disturbance and disorderly conduct.
"As long as a person could have been sentenced to one year or more in jail, their guns can be confiscated," Kelly said.
"If you actually spent more than a year in jail then you did something bad and I don't want you to have a gun either. But like in Larry's (Dicken) case, two young bucks got into a shoving match and he has been law-abiding ever since then. He should be allowed to have his firearms."
Dicken said he didn't even use guns until after his son graduated from high school in 1998 and he found himself needing something to do.
"My brother hunted and I got into it that way and found that I enjoyed shooting and hunting," Dicken said.
Kelly said his fellow legislators tell similar stories involving their constituents elsewhere in Maryland. His request in October for state police to quantify such confiscations and explain the individual convictions upon which actions were based has gone unanswered.
He is sponsoring a bill that would prevent state officials from enforcing the federal statute that allows confiscation of the weapons. It also would prohibit anyone who was sentenced to a year or more in jail from owning or possessing a gun.
"I'm hopeful that the bill will pass and that I will be able to use the firearms again," Dicken said. "At first I was so upset that I brought in my American flag from out front. I felt like I didn't have any freedom anymore. Then Sept. 11 came and everybody everywhere was buying guns to protect themselves, but I wasn't allowed to protect myself. Now, I've got $5,000 worth of guns I can't use and I paid for a membership at the Fort Hill Rifle Club and I can't shoot. I hope it works out. I really want to go hunting next year."
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"Such misdemeanors include cheating, defamation of private persons, unlawful assembly, blasphemy, profanity, common scolding, disturbance and disorderly conduct."
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Resist All Gun Control/Gun Confiscation!
Stay Armed, Stay Free!
Why do I say this?
Because they will not give up, but eventually Conservatives will give in, as we always do.
Shoot guns and reload while you can because the day is coming when you will not be able to.
Do any of us have "rights" any more, or are we merely serfs who have "privileges" at the discretion of our masters?
Updated Gun Control and related links here (#9)
Grrrrrrr . . . yet another excuse. Fits real well with the, 'create so many little laws everyone will break one somewhere' methodology.
They creep closer, and closer, and --
I won't buy another gun in MD. But that won't stop them.
The ammo tax will go through in this next session of the local legislature.
Then reloaders will be targeted.
I'll post current pending legislation that will make gun buyers use a fingerprint tomorrow.
BLOAT. Molon Labe.
Bumped and bookmarked!!
Well then, let's review the ins and outs of "THE ART OF THE CACHE."
~~~Chuck Schumer, 1993
The never quit, they just tighten the shackles one click of the ratchet at a time, always in the same direction, always tighter.
Then it will be one month. Then it will be any misdemeanor.
It's called the ratchet effect, AKA the slow boiling frog.
Anarchy is upon us , albeit incrementally , it is indeed upon us. I guess we just wait till it's out turn,.... nothing we can do , .....they got us, .....were toast, .......deer in the headlights !
Stay Safe & Cache well and plenty !
The realize that already, and that is just what they want----the destruction of America!
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