I am a junior Mechanical Engineering major, and my dream job is to design roller coasters and other amusement rides. It's a disgustingly tiny field; the five companies that I have connections with (and thus sent my resume into for internships) are half of all the companies in the US, and America is actually one of the leading countries (along with Germany, Italy, and Switzerland) and most of these companies are very small, like 20 employees or less. The five companies reside in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Utah, Idaho, and Ohio. The two that currently have official internship openings (and thus the ones that are most likely to give me a full time job when I graduate) are in Pennsylvania and Maryland.
The problem is that I have a collection wish (not a gun owner yet, I will be eventually though) where almost half of my top priority items are scary illegal baby killing assault weapons. In the even that I get a full time job in MD, my questions are as follows:
1: The MD based company is in Baltimore's inner harbor. Theoretically I could live in New Freedom, PA or a nearby town (right on the MD border) but that would mean I would have to commute 45 minutes each way. If I took I-83 down to the inner harbor, how much traffic could I expect to deal with? If it's significant on a regular basis, is there a faster route?
2: If you already owned an assault weapon before 10/1/13, you can own it as long as it's registered. Is there any way you can register and own an assault weapon after that date if you legally purchased and owned it in another state but just moved in? IE would it be possible if I lived in PA for a few months and put up with the long commute as I got my favorite guns, and moved down and registered as soon as I set up my residence?
Now, these issues might not actually be relevant to me at all. There is still no guarantee that I'll get the job in Maryland, and I still have two or three years until I graduate (I have to drop it down to 12 credits per semester, trying to do 15 - 18 is insane, and I might take up to a year off for internships) which means the lawsuits in NY and CT might make it up to SCOTUS and save the whole country by then.
The problem is that I have a collection wish (not a gun owner yet, I will be eventually though) where almost half of my top priority items are scary illegal baby killing assault weapons. In the even that I get a full time job in MD, my questions are as follows:
1: The MD based company is in Baltimore's inner harbor. Theoretically I could live in New Freedom, PA or a nearby town (right on the MD border) but that would mean I would have to commute 45 minutes each way. If I took I-83 down to the inner harbor, how much traffic could I expect to deal with? If it's significant on a regular basis, is there a faster route?
2: If you already owned an assault weapon before 10/1/13, you can own it as long as it's registered. Is there any way you can register and own an assault weapon after that date if you legally purchased and owned it in another state but just moved in? IE would it be possible if I lived in PA for a few months and put up with the long commute as I got my favorite guns, and moved down and registered as soon as I set up my residence?
Now, these issues might not actually be relevant to me at all. There is still no guarantee that I'll get the job in Maryland, and I still have two or three years until I graduate (I have to drop it down to 12 credits per semester, trying to do 15 - 18 is insane, and I might take up to a year off for internships) which means the lawsuits in NY and CT might make it up to SCOTUS and save the whole country by then.