U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- On February 11, the Maryland House of Delegates voted to override Governor Larry Hogan’s veto of House Bill 4 after deferring the vote earlier in the week. Previously, on February 9th, the Senate voted to override the veto of Senate Bill 208. This law goes into effect in 30 days.
Senate Bill 208 and House Bill 4 ban the sale or transfer of long guns between private individuals without first paying fees and obtaining government permission. Firearm transfers such as loans and gifts between friends, neighbors, or fellow hunters, are not exempted. Research shows such proposals have no impact on violent crime, as criminals obtain the vast majority of their firearms through theft or straw purchases.
It is disappointing that the Maryland General Assembly is bent on continuing their decades-long assault on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens rather than joining with Gov. Hogan to “hold violent criminals accountable” for their actions as he stated in his veto statement last year.
Please stay tuned to www.nraila.org and your email inbox for further updates on issues impacting our Second Amendment rights in Maryland.
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So let’s see…If I live in Maryland how will I get around this OBVIOUSLY UNconstitutional piece of crap “legislation”. Oh, I know, I’ll give, sell or transfer my long gun in the privacy of my home over the family dinner table to WHOEVER I WANT TO and exactly how are the busibody psychopathic control freak “legislatures” going to know? Gee, I guess they won’t. SCREW THEM.
“If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.”—– Thomas Jefferson
And the Marxist revolution continues..
Unless those that seek to destroy America are prosecuted for their crimes against the people, these assaults on Liberty and Freedom will continue. TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 242 explains in a language that everyone can easily understand, that deprivation of rights is a federal crime. No one is above the law…
This ANTI-AMERICAN LAW DOES NOT CONCUR WITH THE SECOND AMENDMENT. THUS this DemoKKKrat communistic “law” IS NULL AND VOID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fees and government permission – what BS. How can they possibly think people will go through this hassle to sell some of their personal property. This is nothing but a libturd state looking for more tax income and slowly and surely slipping in more and more Constitutional restrictions.
I foresee a tremendous number of private firearm transfers happening for years to come in that state, and all of them will be post dated prior to this law taking effect. I.E. – when a Marylander sells his/her best friend / neighbor / cousin / etc. a gun a year from now, they will simply privately date that private transfer back to now, prior to this wildly unconstitutional law taking effect. I just now bought a gun a year ago, so to speak. And in the meanwhile, the general population becomes ever more conditioned to ignoring, breaking, and refusing to… Read more »