ddeanjohnson
autodidact
- Aug 21, 2010
- 801
As you say, lawful ownership of a regulated firearm is an exemption from the HQL training requirement. (By the way, the requirement is not that the person lawfully own the regulated firearm on October 1, but only that he lawfully own the regulated firearm at the time of his application for a HQL. He may have moved into Maryland after October 1 and brought a handgun with him, for example.) But ownership of a regulated firearm does not exempt an applicant for a carry permit from the much more burdensome training requirements that SB 281 establishes, as a general rule, for both initial applicants and renewal applicants for carry permits.
A person who holds a carry permit will need to have a HQL to acquire any additional or replacement handguns, subject to the same exceptions as apply to everybody else. Most carry permit holders, therefore, will probably wish to get the HQL.
