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KBCraig wrote:
Smurfologist wrote:
I read HB 52 and was wondering if I understood what it actually means......
A LICENSE ISSUED BY DELAWARE, PENNSYLVANIA, OR VIRGINIA TO AN INDIVIDUAL TO CARRY A REGULATED FIREARM, INCLUDING A CONCEALED REGULATED FIREARM, IS VALID IN THIS STATE.
Does this bill indicate that you can OC or CC, or am I reading too muchintoit? Also, I also took the bill to mean that the licenses would be "recognized" and not that there would be"reciprocity" between the states.
Does the rare, elusive, MD license allow OC, or just CC? Recognized licenses would be authorized to do whatever MD licensees can do, but nothing more. All MD rules would apply.
As for reciprocity, the MD legislature can't declare that, because reciprocity requires the other state to declare mutual recognition. Unilateral declarations are recognition, not reciprocity, exactly as you stated. Texas "recognizes" a NY permit, but there's darn sure no reciprocity there.
There's this state senator... 'Frosh'... I think from Monkey County... must be Sarah Brady's brother... Anyway... This clown is anti-gun all the way. Dunno what input/influence he'd have on this. AZ recognizes a MD CCW.. not that it matters 'cause those are near non-existant to the commoners. This is from the Southern MD forum a couple years ago:
"Trying to get a carry concealed weapon [CCW] permit in Maryland is a farce. I am presently involved in the fiasco and would not have believed how ridiculous the process is, if I wasn't seeing/experiencing it first hand.
Fill the application out, affix a fingerprint card, a passport photo; oh, and don't forget your check for $117.
I'd been better off to just take my money and drop it on $117 worth of "scratch and lose" lottery tickets.
Completed the application then went and
sat for an interview where the Trooper seemed he rather be cleaning a toilet; only to say I didn't have substantial reason.
I am a business owner here in the County and do carry deposits of other people's checks to the bank. Didn't even seem to phase MSP. Identity fraud, bank fraud, damage to my business reputation, you name it. I have an appeal hearing soon, but I doubt I'll have much luck.
The MSP don't give a crap about individuals safety or security. He!!, they already have their CCWs....
Keep it up Maryland it will just be a matter of time before you're number one in violent crime stats....
Time to move to Florida, or Arizona, or Alaska, or Vermont.... Anywhere is better than this Gestapo run state!"
The MD Constitution has no provisio for self defense. That was deleted during the Constitutional Convention of 1867 in advance of the 14th Amendment and a direct result of the Dred Scott Act. No guns for Negro's in the 'Free State'.
Whoever wrote HB 52 is prob'ly a product of MD gummint schools. They obviously dunno where W.Virgina is in relation to MD... or think that's just a part of VA (still). Look... face it... Maryland is filled with myopic mouth breathers. Maryland just seems to breed xenophobic ignorance. The longer I've been gone from there, the moreI realize it. The fact thatI was even spawned there is an embarrassment.A well traveled an informed Marylander is about as rare as a MD CCW holder. OC in MD is existant... along the Appalachian Trail 'n the backwoods where no lawdog will go on foot. Legal? Never! Reasonable and Prudent? Of course... that's why it's not allowed. 'Marylandthink' is like that.
'Seems to me tho.... that in the very wording... that a person with a PA LTCh could open carry... but a Virginian could not, as there is no encompassing 'license/permit' to do so. But... open carry in MD wouldget you arrested or prob'ly shot no matter. What MD needs to do is reinstate the right to bear arms in it's Constitution. Many people don't even knowit waseliminated. 'Course, then again... most peop[le mis-educated in Maryland think the State grants you rights too.
Do I think this Bill will pass? No. Do I think it should? Yes.