Mooseman
R.I.P.- Hooligan #4
From Clark Bros. , it is only another hour and a half to Green Top.
I stopped by Clark Brothers Gun Shop in Warrenton, Virginia. If you haven't been there it is a great store. After looking at several items I mentioned I was a Maryland resident. The clerk told me that they could not sell me anything, no guns, ammo, mags, or anything that you could put on or in a gun except a scope. This was due to the new Maryland law.
I asked him if he was sure and he said yes. I looked a few more guns and left. I didn't argue because it was his store and if their policy is not to sell to Maryland residents I knew that I wasn't going to change his mind.
Has anyone had a like experience?
So, to push the analogy to the extreme for illustration purposes only;
So long as I purchase the receiver in my state of legal residence, I can mail order, purchase, and receive everything else (except magazines over 10 rounds) as individual parts and assemble a functional and legal handgun.
That is not clear from the law, and you may be the test case. Unless you assemble the pistol outside the state.
Simple possession of the receiver could end up with you arrested and in court.
If it was purchased outside the state after 10/1/13, the lower is not legal. Once assembled into a pistol, then you could bring it into the state.
However, this seems to be changing as we speak. But it could still put you in a grey area, as MD is requiring a Form 77R for purchase.
There are plenty of shops in VA that actually enjoy selling standard capacity mags to MD residents. Sharpshooters, VA Arms, and Loudoun guns are a few of them.
I thought the question was on lowers purchased in state.
When I purchased my lowers last year I had to fill out 77R; so I don't see that as unusual.
My purchases were before 1Oct13 though...