Update: Gun license for 'Citizen of the Year' denied again! (Maryland)

The Washington Times ^ | 7/18/02 | Margie Hyslop

[BlessingInDisguise]

A Baltimore County Circuit Court judge has agreed with state Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr. that a civic leader who was a Maryland "citizen of the year" should not be allowed to have a gun.

Judge John F. Fader II's ruling reverses the decision of the state's Handgun Permit Review Board and reignites anger among lawmakers and gun-rights activists over a state police initiative that is confiscating guns and denying permits to Marylanders for minor and old convictions.

[blackdog]

You cannot win this with reason, truth, legal appeals, etc... Start a loud, high profile campaign to publish the names of all handgun owners in the paper. Follow it up with liens on their properties until they turn in handguns. $10,000 per gun should do it. Start bashing in doors and cracking some heads. Give them what they want in the future now! It is the only way to wake sheeple up.

[coloradan]

"The purpose of gun safety laws is to keep guns out of the hands of criminals" say the gun grabbers. But when the "citizen of the year" gets his gun permit yanked, you might start to wonder if maybe, just maybe, the gun grabbers could possibly have another thing in mind.

[monkeyshine]

Maryland places no limit on sentencing for common-law assault

That in itself sounds like a recipe for disaster. A guy could get a life sentence for a barroom fight? Absurd. Even California has a limit of 1 year max for misdemeanors.

[muir_redwoods]

1) The reason we have a 2nd amendment is to resist tyranny.

2) The ruling in this case is tyranny

3) (Rational conclusion here)

[dcwusmc]

B L O A T

[Atlas Sneezed]

Already posted here three days ago under the exact same title:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/718567/posts

[supercat]

That in itself sounds like a recipe for disaster. A guy could get a life sentence for a barroom fight? Absurd. Even California has a limit of 1 year max for misdemeanors

I wonder what the longest sentence ever issued under that statute was? If nobody has ever received over a year in jail for that crime in all the years that law has been on the books, I think it fair to say that he "could" not "have been sentenced to a year or more in prison".

[WFTR]

First, thank you for posting this article. I missed it when it was posted three days ago, and I think it's a good, important article.

Secondly, I think we are reaching the point where real Americans need to leave the state of Maryland. The state has obviously fallen to a dangerously stupid mentality, and only making these people wallow in their own vomit will awake them to the dangers of this mentality. I can only hope that someday gun control will be seen in the same light as Prohibition is today.

WFTR
Bill

[JusticeLives]

What's the problem here?
Mr. Arnold's rights as an American citizen are being denied.
(Coming to your neighborhood soon!)
Call the President and demand explanation for this obvious, blatant usurption of power by this state's attorney general. (Gee, I wonder if he's one of those AT's that Clinton hired after firing all the State AT's when he took office. Gee, has Bush fired all Clinton's state AT's? Think about it.)
HINT: Campaign issue.
Remember, they make exceptions for the privileged.
They make exceptions for celebrities.
They make exceptions for those in Sports.
They make exceptions for senators.
They make exceptions for President who has "longest economic expansion" in the history of America. (Think shell. Think ENRON. Think lost retirements. Think poverty.)
Support Fisher!
You know the drill.
JL

[Tourist Guy]

Damnit all. The Constitution is dead, and we've not had a proper funeral for it.

Constitution of the united states Article One, Section 9:

The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.
The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.
No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

Hasn't been repealed. 'nuff said.

Where is this guy's attorney????

[Fixit]

[SpinyNorman]

"Federal Congress set the rules, I didn't," Mr. Curran said.

Ach!!! I vas chust follovink orders!!

[BlessingInDisguise]