Can someone give a break down of who the biggest obstacles to common-sense concealed carry reform in the state legislature are, what committees they belong to that control the process, and most importantly who their donors are? After reading frustrating thread after frustrating thread of people...
To be fair though it took Jack prematurely ending his career to speak out about the injustice in Maryland, and even when he was at MSP he was powerless to do anything. They could resurrect Charlton Heston himself and make him the licensing division commander, nothing would change.
This is such a boring cop out. Shall Issue carry IS an economic issue. Many of us in the military would probably declare residency here and pay income taxes here if this was a shall issue state. I genuinely enjoy Maryland and would love to live here for a long time, but without shall issue, I'm...
Poor Gov. Hogan will probably hurt himself if he ever tries to walk and chew bubble gum at the same time, if many of the posters in this thread are to be taken seriously.
Something to point out is that Columbia Association forbids firearms (I assume excluding police) on its property, so if CCW is ever a reality in Maryland those of us in the bubble are still screwed.
What would the point of all this cloak and dagger politicking and strategery be when, at the end of the day, the resulting product is going to be a highly publicized policy anyways? Its not like by being vewwy vewwwwwy quiet for the next two days/weeks/years/terms*** there's going to be any less...
Depends on who you're talking to... If you're talking to a squishy lib, it's easy to make them sound racist, which may just make them feel guilty enough to care. Afterall, gun control in Maryland IS historically rooted in racism (see link below), gun violence in Maryland DOES disproportionately...
It would seem to me that the easiest way to resolve the issue would be instructing MSP that self defense qualifies as G&S... I would love to see any documentation, internal or otherwise, for G&S guidelines used by MSP...