Maryland Handgun Roster Board Meetings?

erwos · Feb 10, 2014

Does anyone have any informed insight into why the roster board seems to have closed up shop? They haven't had a meeting for months now, and I find it hard to believe there have been zero submissions.

Conspiracy theories not wanted, guys. Let's keep it to "I was told X by someone who would know Y". Any idiot can tell me that "OMG it's a conspiracy by the state!!!"

Atlasarmory · Feb 10, 2014

I thought they only meet a couple times a year to review what submissions they have received since the last meeting. I think one of those times is in October. That's all I can remember i'm sure someone will be along shortly with some better facts.

Or e-mail this lady Ms Jenkins she will know. marlene.jenkins@maryland.gov

dblas · Feb 10, 2014

erwos said:
Does anyone have any informed insight into why the roster board seems to have closed up shop? They haven't had a meeting for months now, and I find it hard to believe there have been zero submissions.

Conspiracy theories not wanted, guys. Let's keep it to "I was told X by someone who would know Y". Any idiot can tell me that "OMG it's a conspiracy by the state!!!"

They have met, but have not had enough members attend to have a quorum.

kenpo333 · Feb 10, 2014

dblas said:
They have met, but have not had enough members attend to have a quorum.

That's a good way to keep guns out of maryland. Never Have a quorum.

erwos · Feb 10, 2014

dblas said:
They have met, but have not had enough members attend to have a quorum.

Thank you. That actually makes sense, even if it's rather inconvenient. Do you think that there's any political will now to either reform or remove the roster?

kenpo333 said:
That's a good way to keep guns out of maryland. Never Have a quorum.

Not helpful, as per my initial post. No conspiracy theories, please.

dblas · Feb 10, 2014

erwos said:
Thank you. That actually makes sense, even if it's rather inconvenient. Do you think that there's any political will now to either reform or remove the roster?

Not helpful, as per my initial post. No conspiracy theories, please.

I don't think so, I think we are stuck with it. BTW, there are quite a few submissions waiting for action. Most are already approved models but caliber specific, most of the submission are to get other calibers approved.

It would appear that they are trying to restrict handguns by only approving specific calibers of a model at a time, instead of an entire line.

KRONIK27 · Feb 10, 2014

They need to get off their arses. I want the New Remington R51 and Glock42.

ShallNotInfringe · Feb 10, 2014

Excuse me, you must be operating under the grave misperception that these people work for us.

Rack&Roll · Feb 10, 2014

kenpo333 said:
That's a good way to keep guns out of maryland. Never Have a quorum.

Just axxin': how many no-quorums meetings until the Foil Wrap can come off? They only meet a couple times a year...

Name Taken · Feb 10, 2014

When I submitted my contribution last year it took 2 months of "missed" meetings. I was told one was delayed for weather and the only one because they did not "have enough samples" to meet....Funny I didn't read anything in the made up stupid law that said they needed 5 or more guns to meet.

The lady was polite who I contacted...Marlene or something I think but the system is so botched it's not even funny.

fidelity · Feb 10, 2014

Two weeks ago, I had heard that February 13 was a date that they were surveying members to attend, and there were new firearms to evaluate.

erwos · Mar 17, 2014

Doesn't seem like 2/13 happened, so I just shot off an email to Marlene asking when we could expect the next meeting. *sigh*

erwos · Mar 18, 2014

Next meeting is supposed to be 3/27. ~30 guns are on the docket.

fidelity · Mar 18, 2014

erwos said:
Next meeting is supposed to be 3/27. ~30 guns are on the docket.

Amazing how slow this process is. I'm guessing that they meet 3-4 times a year on average. Thanks for the update. The February date got snowed out I presume.

erwos · Mar 18, 2014

I'm just hoping we see some interesting guns for once. Random model/caliber variations are getting boring... I want to see some cool new stuff.

MichaelTech · Mar 19, 2014

The Maryland Code for Handgun Board is defined in:

MD Code, Public Safety, § 5-404

Meeting is section e which reads:

(e) The Board shall meet at the request of the chairman or of a majority of the members.

So we know that the Secretary of State Police who is the Chairman probably has no interest in calling a Meeting which means that 6 of the Members have to agree to meet for a meeting to take place. So it is up to the 11 Edit: 10 members of board that are appointed to agree to meet for a meeting to take place. So it is up to the 11 member board to decide when it is going to meet by a Majority Request of the 10 appointed members which is 6 of the 10.
As Erwos has said in his last post the next meeting is March 27, 2014 @ 11:00 A.M.

The docket is set and no more additions can be added to it.

At the top of the page for the Hand Gun Roster they have the Next Meeting date so look there to see if it changes.

I have Emailed to see if the Docket is available to the public before the meeting, I will post what I get back either the response or maybe the Docket.

FTJoe · Mar 19, 2014

is there a form that citizens can fill out and submit for review with guns they want added?

MichaelTech · Mar 19, 2014

As promised: I received a reply.

They do not normally Publish the Agenda beforehand.

The Results are Published.

a prompt reply from them.

HappyCamper · Mar 19, 2014

erwos said:
Next meeting is supposed to be 3/27. ~30 guns are on the docket.

Any AK Pistols on the list to get approved?

erwos · Mar 19, 2014

HappyCamper said:
Any AK Pistols on the list to get approved?

The current view of the roster board and the MSP is that AK pistols are copies of AK rifles. Stupid, yes, but I would not expect any to be approved for general sale.

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