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  • esqappellate

    President, MSI
    Feb 12, 2012
    7,407
    Anyone at MSI have any contacts with "Heavy Hitters"? Hell, Bob Barker gave $5 Milly to Paul Watson to save a whale. No one have David Koch's phone number? He'll find 100K under his sofa cushions. Any reach to CATO , based in DC? They are known to fund fights for individual liberty and constitutional rights. This cause just does not appear to get much traction at all from whales. That is pure speculation short of disclosure. Emily can't schmooze some big donors? Is it NRA is the exclusive go to for many? Seriously, if NRA can't dig up 100K for this battle, that is what has me question if it is worth it. Going to fight legal battles strictly on principal is a losers game.

    I never guarantee anything, but this is not a "loser" of a case.
     

    ironpony

    Member
    MDS Supporter
    Jun 8, 2013
    7,192
    Davidsonville
    Instead of a thermometer, how about a windowed standard capacity magazine with the number of loaded rounds increasing proportional to donations received...


    Yes, 1 rnd per $1,000. I'm thinking more towards the entire gun owner populous though, revolvers and such. and something Fox might not feel bad printing in a small article, a belt fed MG thermometer may back fire in its good intention but excel in a more tactical location.

    I have my HQL $$ and donated $$ (MSI). Can MDS send a mass email to all 22K members when we are ready with a good presentation as to where we are going and where our destination is. Many many do not know you need and HQL and say "what, they can't do that" even here in MD.

    Empty holsters to the top where lies the Constitution. On the side a graphic of the states having attainable ccw laws. "lets keep up with our nation".

    We need donations for raffles as well. Is there a gun shop that would not benefit from ccw being attained, no so they might help with fundraisers. Some one call Fox Firearms. talk to your local shops, I am sure most of them are involved already but purchase matching donation @ 1% ?? I am thinking a lawsuit may be our only direction since a bill (SB100) can just disappear, poof gone, I might be wrong about that but where is it now? really. We are getting a lot more press from the Ammoland letters, how did that happen, keep that going. Should we write to NRA since writing to our reps well they listen to money (Bloomberg) not a msg jotted down by their secretary.

    Might be crazy but ... speak up, it might happen and will help.
    Anyway, keep up the good fight.
     

    Schipperke

    Ultimate Member
    MDS Supporter
    Feb 19, 2013
    18,540
    I never guarantee anything, but this is not a "loser" of a case.

    Perhaps not but there is a catch 22 with the HQL funding. For people where spending the money to get an HQL is not a burden, these are the same people that can donate. Don't for a second dismiss there is a contingent of gun buyers with HQL's who find the exclusivity for those that can afford it, a good thing. When being grandfathered in on the training requirement, that again does not give much urgency for more established firearms enthusiasts, that only need plug in a serial number to avoid training requirement. Is military excluded as well? While not legitimate requirement on principal and perhaps a winner by law, the burden is not enough to invoke big response. Some have likened this to the boiled frog theorem, a good analogy. For FSA2013 , you whip up the fear immediately they are coming to get your gun, then naturally the numbers that mustered were significant.
     

    Boondock Saint

    Ultimate Member
    Dec 11, 2008
    24,372
    White Marsh
    Donated.

    Historically MSI members have answered the bell whenever they put out a call for cash because it was always done judiciously. This is a very big ask of all of us in the sense that the number needed is quite large. But, as has been pointed out countless times over the years, there are a lot of firearm owners in Maryland. Everyone gives $10, we're golden. So realistically, it's not a big ask. At all.

    Open your wallet. Hound your friends, family and acquaintances. Repost the all-call on social media. Forward the email. Do your part.
     

    Brychan

    Ultimate Member
    Apr 24, 2009
    8,391
    Baltimore
    Look at this way over a million emails were sent to Annapolis to try and stop FSA2013, plus loads of calls and overloading both houses of our esteemed law makers that did very little good, courts are the only chance we really have and that costs big money.

    So I say let's see what we can do to fill the pot.
     

    StantonCree

    Watch your beer
    Jan 23, 2011
    23,932
    65% of donations MSI collects go towards maintaining the vice-president's amazing hair.

    For your information, MSI does have a treasurer.

    You really are unbelievable. You claim the only way things can be corrected here is through litigation, and yet when the state's largest gun-rights group is tied up with one federal case and is working on launching a second, and asks for donations; you question its motives, honesty, and integrity?

    Read all his posts........don't take him seriously or feel really really bad :lol2:
     

    esqappellate

    President, MSI
    Feb 12, 2012
    7,407
    Perhaps not but there is a catch 22 with the HQL funding. For people where spending the money to get an HQL is not a burden, these are the same people that can donate. Don't for a second dismiss there is a contingent of gun buyers with HQL's who find the exclusivity for those that can afford it, a good thing. When being grandfathered in on the training requirement, that again does not give much urgency for more established firearms enthusiasts, that only need plug in a serial number to avoid training requirement. Is military excluded as well? While not legitimate requirement on principal and perhaps a winner by law, the burden is not enough to invoke big response. Some have likened this to the boiled frog theorem, a good analogy. For FSA2013 , you whip up the fear immediately they are coming to get your gun, then naturally the numbers that mustered were significant.

    For those I commend the following hard won wisdom of Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) quoted in The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum



    First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
    Because I was not a Socialist.

    Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
    Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

    Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
    Because I was not a Jew.

    Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
     

    fidelity

    piled higher and deeper
    MDS Supporter
    Aug 15, 2012
    22,400
    Frederick County
    Me too. Same as the cost of a couple boxes of ammo, an LPK, or an ALG QMS trigger. I wouldn't hesitate in buying any of these and remember what MSI (spearheading an effort that involved the NRA and others) was able to remove from SB281. Time to finish the job.

    Here's the link from the OP...

    https://marylandshallissue.com/fightthehql/
     

    Mark75H

    MD Wear&Carry Instructor
    Industry Partner
    MDS Supporter
    Sep 25, 2011
    17,174
    Outside the Gates
    Today I received the latest NRA ILA email. At the bottom are stories on legislation being considered and passed in other states..Guess which state was not mentioned...at all....

    The NRA knows where their money and time are working..it's not here...


    No, all the more reason for us to fight our own fight
     

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