junglebob
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I was wondering if there is any shall issue LTC legislation in the Maryland legislature.
I live in the "right denied" state of Illinois, where you can't even get a LTC from the state even if you are rich and well connected. I do however have a Pa and Utah LTC. I'm on the Illinoiscarry.com/forum which is working to get shall issue LTC in Illinois. I was wondering if there is a similar group in Maryland.
One of the few times that Illinois gun laws looked sort of good to me was after I planned a trip to Pa. I was planning on taking my handgun along. I flew into BWI airport and after reading up on Maryland transport laws I decided to leave my handgun at home. Just for information people do fly in and out of Chicago's O'Hare Airport with handguns.
Here in Illinois we have good support for LTC legislation in southern Illinois where I live. There were 2 counties down here that had a resolution on the ballot asking if the state should pass LTC legislation. In one county the yes vote was 90% and the other 84% both counties are over 300 miles from Chicago and Cook County. Chicago is the main reason we don't have LTC.
Here in Illinois LTC legislation is often never let out of committee as the Senate and House leaders both oppose it.
The Illinois State Rifle Association supports LTC and have a Gun Owners Lobby Day in the capital each year. Illinois Carry has helped promote it the last few years and it has gone from several hundred people attending several years ago to about 1500in 2007, about 2500 in 2008, to over 5000 this year.
Our gun laws in Illinois aren't all that good, but open carry is legal in rural areas outside a vehicle, unless there is a local ordinance prohibiting it. Also transporting an unloaded cased firearm with a loaded magazine on your person is legal if you have a Firearm Owners ID (FOID) card. No, you don't have to be traveling to a range or to a gun shop to get it repaired or similar destination.That being said you still might get arrested doing it, it is often referred to as "fanny packing" here. There may be some municipalities that prohibit it, but none in Southern Illinois that I know of.
I assume that even women with a "protection order" normally can't get a LTC in Maryland. If so are you using this fact to push shall issue LTC?
I was wondering if there is any shall issue LTC legislation in the Maryland legislature.
I live in the "right denied" state of Illinois, where you can't even get a LTC from the state even if you are rich and well connected. I do however have a Pa and Utah LTC. I'm on the Illinoiscarry.com/forum which is working to get shall issue LTC in Illinois. I was wondering if there is a similar group in Maryland.
One of the few times that Illinois gun laws looked sort of good to me was after I planned a trip to Pa. I was planning on taking my handgun along. I flew into BWI airport and after reading up on Maryland transport laws I decided to leave my handgun at home. Just for information people do fly in and out of Chicago's O'Hare Airport with handguns.
Here in Illinois we have good support for LTC legislation in southern Illinois where I live. There were 2 counties down here that had a resolution on the ballot asking if the state should pass LTC legislation. In one county the yes vote was 90% and the other 84% both counties are over 300 miles from Chicago and Cook County. Chicago is the main reason we don't have LTC.
Here in Illinois LTC legislation is often never let out of committee as the Senate and House leaders both oppose it.
The Illinois State Rifle Association supports LTC and have a Gun Owners Lobby Day in the capital each year. Illinois Carry has helped promote it the last few years and it has gone from several hundred people attending several years ago to about 1500in 2007, about 2500 in 2008, to over 5000 this year.
Our gun laws in Illinois aren't all that good, but open carry is legal in rural areas outside a vehicle, unless there is a local ordinance prohibiting it. Also transporting an unloaded cased firearm with a loaded magazine on your person is legal if you have a Firearm Owners ID (FOID) card. No, you don't have to be traveling to a range or to a gun shop to get it repaired or similar destination.That being said you still might get arrested doing it, it is often referred to as "fanny packing" here. There may be some municipalities that prohibit it, but none in Southern Illinois that I know of.
I assume that even women with a "protection order" normally can't get a LTC in Maryland. If so are you using this fact to push shall issue LTC?