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    Biggfoot44

    Biggfoot44

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    Aug 2, 2009
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    As noted , various flavors of this have been introduced virtually every year for decades . Always dies in Committee .

    This Year , I'll speculate a 10% chance ( up from 0% ) of it being taken seriously .

    From sheer numbers , there have got to be a couple of Dems or their senior staffers who aren't totally stupid , and are aware of the NYSRPA case and likely result . Their doomsday worst nightmare would be a situation like the DC result preserved forever by Hvy Max in his shorts and sandals when DC was constitutional carry until the DC Council could pass a Shall Issue licensing scheme . If something happened like that during the 9 months MGA wasn't in session , their heads would explode .

    Still unlikely , but if MGA were ever to blink , and get ahead of the curve in advance , now is their window .
     
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    Patattack88

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    Jan 9, 2020
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    The Today show just had a piece on “GhOSt GuNS” seems like a national coordinated attack on freedom. Maybe if the lock up the criminals and keep them in there they get better results.
     
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    Slackdaddy

    My pronouns: Iva/Bigun
    Jan 1, 2019
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    The DNC memo has made it down to all the "Local Home Town" news shows too.


    Patattack88 said:
    The Today show just had a piece on “GhOSt GuNS” seems like a national coordinated attack on freedom. Maybe if the lock up the criminals and keep them in there they get better results.
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    DC-W

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    Jan 23, 2013
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    This is all nationally coordinated by Bloomberg's groups, Brady, and Giffords. If you've not noticed, all have sent representatives to Annapolis the few years on this issue.

    The irony is that it's all a war on guns no different than the war on drugs and if a supporter of further criminalization of gun ownership if the war on drugs is bad, they'll agree. When it's guns, however, all bets are off. It's particularly feckless when considering local lawmakers' recent efforts to 'reform' police or otherwise increase accountability of them -- those reforms don't go into effect immediately and still aren't fully so from the bills moved last year. Therefore, the police are not so dangerous to the public in their view that they shouldn't have more powers and reasons to make more arrests.

    Guns bad.
     
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    Kharn

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    Mar 9, 2008
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    Hazzard County
    rbird7282 said:
    A version of that has been submitted every year for probably the last 10 years at least
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    Who can call an emergency session, only the governor? Hogan sitting on his hands and letting January roll around would be delicious irony if MD's law took a hit below the waterline as a direct result of NYSRPA.

    But I bet he'd call it quickly in a bid to appear bipartisan and get along with the Ds.
     
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    DC-W

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    Kharn said:
    Who can call an emergency session, only the governor? Hogan sitting on his hands and letting January roll around would be delicious irony if MD's law took a hit below the waterline as a direct result of NYSRPA.

    But I bet he'd call it quickly in a bid to appear bipartisan and get along with the Ds.
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    Maryland Constitution Article II, Section 16
    The Governor shall convene the Legislature, or the Senate alone, on extraordinary occasions; and whenever from the presence of an enemy, or from any other cause, the Seat of Government shall become an unsafe place for the meeting of the Legislature, he may direct their sessions to be held at some other convenient place.
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    https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/43const/html/02art2.html

    Article III, Section 15
    (1) The General Assembly may continue its session so long as in its judgment the public interest may require, for a period not longer than ninety days in each year. The ninety days shall be consecutive unless otherwise provided by law. The General Assembly may extend its session beyond ninety days, but not exceeding an additional thirty days, by resolution concurred in by a three-fifths vote of the membership in each House. When the General Assembly is convened by Proclamation of the Governor, the session shall not continue longer than thirty days, but no additional compensation other than mileage and other allowances provided by law shall be paid members of the General Assembly for special session.

    (2) Any compensation and allowances paid to members of the General Assembly shall be as established by a commission known as the General Assembly Compensation Commission. The Commission shall consist of nine members, five of whom shall be appointed by the Governor, two of whom shall be appointed by the President of the Senate, and two of whom shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates. Members of the General Assembly and officers and employees of the Government of the State of Maryland or of any county, city, or other governmental unit of the State shall not be eligible for appointment to the Commission. Members of the Commission shall be appointed for terms of four years commencing on June 1 of each gubernatorial election year. Members of the Commission are eligible for re-appointment. Any member of the Commission may be removed by the Governor prior to the expiration of his term for official misconduct, incompetence, or neglect of duty. The members shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for expenses incurred in carrying out their responsibilities under this section. Decisions of the Commission must be concurred in by at least five members.

    (3) Within 15 days after the beginning of the regular session of the General Assembly in 1974 and within 15 days after the beginning of the regular session in each fourth year thereafter, the Commission by formal resolution shall submit its determinations for compensation and allowances to the General Assembly. The General Assembly may reduce or reject, but shall not increase any item in the resolution. The resolution, with any reductions that shall have been concurred in by joint resolution of the General Assembly, shall take effect and have the force of law as of the beginning of the term of office of the next General Assembly. Rates of compensation and pensions shall be uniform for all members of the General Assembly, except that the officers of the Senate and the House of Delegates may receive higher compensation as determined by the General Assembly Compensation Commission. The provisions of the Compensation Commission resolution shall continue in force until superseded by any succeeding resolution.

    (4) In no event shall the compensation and allowances be less than they were prior to the establishment of the Compensation Commission
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    https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/43const/html/03art3.html

    tl;dr The Governor can call for a special session in "extraordinary occasions," but the Governor must call for a session if majorities of both chambers of the General Assembly petition so.
     
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