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Open carry of weapons in Maryland[/b] requires a permit for the first time ever – after more than
300 years of unrestricted open carry by citizens. (Archives of Maryland[/b], 708:48-51) It now
requires a permit from the Maryland[/b] State Police to carry a handgun in any way – concealed
or open – State Police are to determine whether citizens have “good and substantial” reasons
to carry a handgun, which show the permit is necessary “as a reasonable precaution against
apprehended danger.” The only previous time in Maryland[/b] history that any and all carry
required a permit was in 1831 and applied to free blacks only. The adoption of discretionary
carry laws are a direct result from fears of the Baltimore Race Riots in 1968, and the rise in
crime after the national gun control act of 1968. The similarity of this 1972[/b] law to the 1831
law in response to the slave rebellion is striking and inescapable.
1972: Open carry of weapons in Maryland requires a permit for the first time ever – after more than 300 years of unrestricted open carry by citizens. (Archives of Maryland, 708:48-51) It now requires a permit from the Maryland State Police to carry a handgun in any way – concealed or open – State Police are to determine whether citizens have “good and substantial” reasons to carry a handgun, which show the permit is necessary “as a reasonable precaution against apprehended danger.” The only previous time in Maryland history that any and all carry required a permit was in 1831 and applied to free blacks only. The adoption of discretionary carry laws are a direct result from fears of the Baltimore Race Riots in 1968, and the rise in crime after the national gun control act of 1968. The similarity of this 1972 law to the 1831law in response to the slave rebellion is striking and inescapable.
State 'law' apparently did not pre-empt local ordinances. Unless you were in the deep woods somewhere... You'd be arrested. That 'unrestricted open carry' is bogus...
Open carry of weapons in Maryland[/b] requires a permit for the first time ever – after more than
300 years of unrestricted open carry by citizens. (Archives of Maryland[/b], 708:48-51) It now
requires a permit from the Maryland[/b] State Police to carry a handgun in any way – concealed
or open – State Police are to determine whether citizens have “good and substantial” reasons
to carry a handgun, which show the permit is necessary “as a reasonable precaution against
apprehended danger.” The only previous time in Maryland[/b] history that any and all carry
required a permit was in 1831 and applied to free blacks only. The adoption of discretionary
carry laws are a direct result from fears of the Baltimore Race Riots in 1968, and the rise in
crime after the national gun control act of 1968. The similarity of this 1972[/b] law to the 1831
law in response to the slave rebellion is striking and inescapable.
1972: Open carry of weapons in Maryland requires a permit for the first time ever – after more than 300 years of unrestricted open carry by citizens. (Archives of Maryland, 708:48-51) It now requires a permit from the Maryland State Police to carry a handgun in any way – concealed or open – State Police are to determine whether citizens have “good and substantial” reasons to carry a handgun, which show the permit is necessary “as a reasonable precaution against apprehended danger.” The only previous time in Maryland history that any and all carry required a permit was in 1831 and applied to free blacks only. The adoption of discretionary carry laws are a direct result from fears of the Baltimore Race Riots in 1968, and the rise in crime after the national gun control act of 1968. The similarity of this 1972 law to the 1831law in response to the slave rebellion is striking and inescapable.
State 'law' apparently did not pre-empt local ordinances. Unless you were in the deep woods somewhere... You'd be arrested. That 'unrestricted open carry' is bogus...