- Jan 30, 2013
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Post of the day! And it's only 8:29 in the morning....
Post of the day! And it's only 8:29 in the morning....
Now who wants to be the first one to suggest that they agreed to give us a shell casing repeal in exchange for not making any administrative changes to CCW regs? Conspiracy time!
Seriously though, why now? What did Hogan give them to get this? They don't have near unanimous votes like this on pro 2A bills with the most vile of gun grabbers voting for it unless the Brothers Mike told them to do it. Never mind the speed at which this thing moved at the end of the session. I like good news but I can't say I really trust the other side.
On a side note, MSP must be pretty unhappy they'll have to print all new 77Rs for October 1st. Maybe we can just stamp DISAPPROVED across the section?
To scrap the existing trove of brass would be the tragick! Think of the childrenz who could be saved by all that brass!
I say it should be maintained forever, in the Attorney General's garage.
He should be required to catalog it. Every case.
Well, that provision was often used as clear evidence of the foolish excess of MD's gun laws, and it worked.
Now that they're being more closely scrutinized by the courts and requiring justification in Constitutional terms, maybe it started sticking out as a sore thumb as possibly outliving its political usefulness and became a political liability instead.
Anybody know whether the AG's office issued anything in writing about this bill? It might be an interesting read.
Blanket written testimony at both hearings against repealing the law.
Paging dblas...come out ... come out... where ever you are...
Let's get the brass from all the casings that 'infringed' on our rights, melt it down... Then cast little Liberty Bell's (sell them to our friends and supporters), and next time we rally in Annapolis, we let our little Liberty bells ring!
Nothing from the administration was "traded" for this. As for "why now?" Several reason to include the economic ones that were creeping up quickly (new warehouse need, 4 techs assigned to this for manual input and not to something else, plus a few others).
Going thru Rules Committee , having second and third readers on same day , and passing by unamious and near unamious votes doesn't happen accidently or spontainously.
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I am not quite paranoid enough to assume it had to be a swap between pro 2A and anti 2A , but it had to be Somthing. Not directly related necessarily , but Somthing.
Smooth move.Wow, that explains the really cold winter.
Makes me wonder if this isn't a viable form of attack for the future. Point to something that costs money that the MSP doesn't want to do, and then hammer it through using the budget negotiations. Clearly, this strategy is not going to get rid of all of the 2A infringements in MD, but at least it seems like it works, which is more than I can say for some previous things the community has done.I was a certainly wondering whether part 1 above would happen, and if so, then part 2 would be the next question.
I'm just happy with the possibility of the change, but my gut tells me that MSP/GA simply wanted this off their plates in the future.
Makes me wonder if this isn't a viable form of attack for the future. Point to something that costs money that the MSP doesn't want to do, and then hammer it through using the budget negotiations. Clearly, this strategy is not going to get rid of all of the 2A infringements in MD, but at least it seems like it works, which is more than I can say for some previous things the community has done.