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  • zoostation

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    Jan 28, 2007
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    Abingdon
    Not to be the booger on the birthday cake but I think any bill to pre-emptively grant a looser CCW-issuance standard in light of the 4th Circuit decision is doomed no matter which side submits it, at least for this year. O'Malley and Gansler both plan to fight any potentially pro-carry 4th Circuit decision all the way to SCOTUS if they can. At a minimum they'll seek a stay from the 4th Circuit until they can petition SCOTUS and get an answer on whether they'll hear it. There goes most of 2013 before all of that gets resolved.
     

    MDFF2008

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    Aug 12, 2008
    24,735
    what do you guys make of this. I just pulled it off the MD legislature. Seems like they want to open the concealed carry before they lose in the 4th appeals

    This is a Mike Smigiel Bill. Mike is a HUGE friend of the 2nd Amendment. We have never completely abandoned the General Assembly as a path to shall issue.

    The bill will repeal G&S, and add in a training requirement for permitting.

    This has a two fold application:

    1.) It prevents Frosh from trying to use training as G&S 2.0. Frosh last year tried to create an undefined training requirement. Truthfully, it would be very, very, very difficult to fight a training requirement. MSI has been trying to make the requirement as fair as possible. We want to make sure the grandma on a fixed income and the working family that works odd hours can get the same training a Pratt Street Businessman with vacation leave can.

    2.) It calms down some fence sitters who might be ok with trained people carrying.
     

    Klunatic

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    Feb 28, 2011
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    Montgomery Cty
    "They" don't want to, Mike does.

    He has it reading a lot like Florida's standards, which should be a national model of how it's done.

    "I Like Mike"

    We should get a bunch of buttons made up and hand them out at MDS/MSI functions. Perhaps each time a state Rep sees the button they will begin to associate the voter to the cause.
     

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