Maryland – -(Ammoland.com)- Post-Election Update:
What a stunner! From a Second Amendment perspective, this national election is a dream come true.
The Presidential candidate who was loudly vocal in his defense of the Second Amendment won the Presidency.
The new President-elect has pledged to defend the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
The Presidential candidate who wanted to impose on the United States the so-called “Australian solution” of massive gun confiscation lost decisively in the Electoral College, including losing the key battleground States of Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin (and most likely Michigan and Arizona, which are still formally undeclared as of this writing).
The new President-elect will not only fill the open seat of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (the author of the Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, recognizing that the Second Amendment embodies an individual right to keep and bear arms), he will nominate individuals to fill the seats of any new vacancies on the Supreme Court (as well as filling vacancies on the lower federal courts) for at least the next four years.
The average age of the Justices on the Supreme Court at this moment is just over 69, a near record. The average retirement age of Supreme Court Justices is 78.7 years. Justice Breyer (who dissented in Heller) is 78. Justice Ginsburg (who likewise dissented in Heller) is 83. Justice Kennedy (who joined the majority in Heller) is 80.
That is potentially three more seats (in addition to Justice Scalia’s seat) on the Supreme Court that may become open within the next four years. In short, the President-elect will nominate Justices who will likely be part of a voting majority on the Court for the next generation.
And there is more. Defenders of the Second Amendment retained control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives! That is huge. Suddenly, there are new possibilities of federal legislation that would have been impossible during the last eight years. Hopefully gone will be veto threats and the Executive Branch policies and legislative proposals that burdened or threatened the exercise of Second Amendment rights by law-abiding citizens.
Alas, we cannot celebrate these national electoral victories of the Second Amendment without also recognizing that our work is cut out for us here in Maryland.
In this State, gun control advocates swept nearly every federal election to Congress (with the notable and important exception of Congressman Andy Harris, who won reelection to Congress in the First Congressional District on the Eastern Shore). These politicians seem to believe that sacrificing the rights of gun owners is somehow appropriate. It is our mission to convince them, and any like-minded legislators in the Maryland General Assembly, that they are mistaken. The General Assembly convenes on January 11, 2017. State-wide elections for Maryland officials (including the Governor and Attorney General) are coming up in 2018. More than ever, it is time to get involved.
We need your help. You can Join Maryland Shall Issue®, upgrade your membership, or contribute to the HQL suit on our website: www.MarylandShallIssue.org.
Mark W. Pennak, President,
Maryland Shall Issue
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Nov 12 – 13
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About Maryland Shall Issue:
Mission Statement: Maryland Shall Issue is an all volunteer, non-partisan effort dedicated to the preservation and advancement of all gunowners’ rights in Maryland, with a primary goal of CCW reform to allow all law-abiding citizens the right to carry a concealed weapon; and to the education of the community to the awareness that ‘shall issue’ laws have, in all cases, resulted in decreased rates of violent crime.
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Yes, a lost cause. This place is basically Little DC and it sucks. Ill tell you what MSI, you have about as much chance of changing the folks in DC as you do of changing maryland, aint gonna happen.
Get the word out about jury nullification. It’s apparent to me that the quasi-communists that run this state are out of touch with the people of this state. Were just too cucked to stand up for ourselves and our interests. At one time, everywhere in this country we were pretty much indifferent toward gun rights. Now it’s the opposite. Jury nullification ended alcohol prohibition. It most likely will end marijuana prohibition. We can use it to stop prosecuting people for exercising their rights w/o permission prom THEIR PUBLIC SERVANTS!.
The DemocRATic Peoples Party is STILL in control of the Maryland government.
The Republicant Governor is not helping at all to restore the ,RESTATED and REAFFIRMED RIGHTS of We the People in the Constitution, Second Amendment God given RIGHTS to We The People.
ALL of these anti-gunner laws that work AGAINST the Law Abiding Americans MUST come too an end.
The “gerrymandering” of the State that keeps these ANTI-Constitutionals in power MUST come too an end.
I was born and bred in Maryland. I moved out 34 years ago. Since than Maryland has just gone farther down the tubes as more and more liberals have gotten into politics. I have much family in Maryland but don’t visit as much as I should. I just don’t feel comfortable in my home state. I pray for the day that some one in the general assembly introduces concealed carry permit reciprocity and it passes the general assembly, but I guess that’s not going to happen in my lifetime.
Maryland is and has been a lost cause for quite some time, that’s just a sad fact. I grew up on the Eastern Shore in the 50’s & 60’s when you could walk into any hardware store and pay cash for a handgun and walk right out with it. Then GCA ’68 was enacted and the liberals moved into Balt, Montgomery & PG politics and the State was on the road to loss of personal freedom and economic ruin. Fifteen years ago there were 20 Fortune 500 Companies in the State, now there are, I believe, two. Beretta is closing… Read more »