2024 - HB546 (SB324)- Handgun Permits - Accidental Discharge and Training Requirements - Maryland State Police Gun Center (Firearm Safety Act of 2024)

[dblas]

Handgun Permits - Accidental Discharge and Training Requirements - Maryland State Police Gun Center (Firearm Safety Act of 2024)

Requiring a person who holds a handgun permit and accidentally discharges a firearm to register within 90 days for a certain firearms safety training course and complete the course within 6 months of the incident; requiring the Secretary of State Police to revoke a handgun permit of a certain person who fails to successfully complete a certain firearms safety training course; requiring the Secretary to provide certain written notice to a person whose handgun permit is revoked; etc.

Link to House Bill: https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0546F.pdf

House Hearing:

Link to Senate Bill: https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0324F.pdf

House Hearing:

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

dblas, I had some accidental or not so accidental discharges beginning around 14 year old.

Will I lose my man card?

 

[dblas]

dblas, I had some accidental or not so accidental discharges beginning around 14 year old.

Will I lose my man card?

LOL Depends on how many pages got sticky....

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Handgun Permits - Accidental Discharge and Training Requirements - Maryland State Police Gun Center (Firearm Safety Act of 2024)

Requiring a person who holds a handgun permit and accidentally discharges a firearm to register within 90 days for a certain firearms safety training course and complete the course within 6 months of the incident; requiring the Secretary of State Police to revoke a handgun permit of a certain person who fails to successfully complete a certain firearms safety training course; requiring the Secretary to provide certain written notice to a person whose handgun permit is revoked; etc.

Link to House Bill: https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/hb/hb0546F.pdf

House Hearing:

Link to Senate Bill: https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2024RS/bills/sb/sb0324F.pdf

House Hearing:

Thanks for posting the links.

As I read through the language, one thing I see missing.

Where are the proposed laws to curb INTENTIONAL DISCHARGE of FIREARMS by REAL CRIMINALS?

Also, HOW MANY LICENSED to CARRY gun owners do we know who ACCIDENTALLY DISCHARGE their FIREARMS so that BODILY INJURY or DEATH occur like these proposed laws are meant to address?

Somehow, I think the offender number will be quite small. Don't you?

 

[dblas]

Thanks for posting the links.

As I read through the language, one thing I see missing.

Where are the proposed laws to curb INTENTIONAL DISCHARGE of FIREARMS by REAL CRIMINALS?

Also, HOW MANY LICENSED to CARRY gun owners do we know who ACCIDENTALLY DISCHARGE their FIREARMS so that BODILY INJURY or DEATH occur like these proposed laws are meant to address?

Somehow, I think the offender number will be quite small. Don't you?

No problem on the links, I try to improve the bill posting each session.

I'm betting we will be able to count the numbers on one hand and have 4 fingers and a thumb left over.

 

[BurkeM]

Thanks for posting the links.

As I read through the language, one thing I see missing.

Where are the proposed laws to curb INTENTIONAL DISCHARGE of FIREARMS by REAL CRIMINALS?

Also, HOW MANY LICENSED to CARRY gun owners do we know who ACCIDENTALLY DISCHARGE their FIREARMS so that BODILY INJURY or DEATH occur like these proposed laws are meant to address?

Somehow, I think the offender number will be quite small. Don't you?

Criminals aren't required to carry any insurance.

Go figure.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Criminals aren't required to carry any insurance.

Go figure.

Hence the rise in Carjackings

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

No problem on the links, I try to improve the bill posting each session.

I'm betting we will be able to count the numbers on one hand and have 4 fingers and a thumb left over.

Much appreciated.

Also, re unintentional discharges of firearms. One of my first conversations I had with

U.S.SFC_RET. We discussed the rules of firearm safety, which I practice religiously and repeatedly each time I handle a weapon.​

I actually lost one of my childhood friends at 17 years old due to and AD. I was not present or privy to them having this weapon. Needless to say, neither he nor our other buddy who was with him were legal owners of the .22 that ended his life, That would not have mattered if the rules of gun safety were followed, the boy would never have been shot. Even if it was someone's dad's, brother's, gun or whatever.

Same goes for legal users of firearms.

 

[6-Pack]

Are police held to the same standard? I’ve read about more NDs from officers than John Q. Public (not cop bashing, just stating my observation).

 

[dblas]

Are police held to the same standard? I’ve read about more NDs from officers than John Q. Public (not cop bashing, just stating my observation).

Right now, that is on an individual department basis.

 

[BurkeM]

For those opposed- Use the MSI Bill Tracker. Write up your TESTIMONY against the bill, explain why you oppose.

When it's scheduled for a hearing SIGN UP to testify.

 

[dblas]

As of today, still no hearing date set.

 

[Harrys]

LOL Depends on how many pages got sticky....

Just make it a sticky thread then

 

[Harrys]

Are police held to the same standard? I’ve read about more NDs from officers than John Q. Public (not cop bashing, just stating my observation).

I know for a fact that at a Federal Training Centers you F-Up you are gone.

 

[BurkeM]

Police agencies are self-insured - Negligent discharges are paid for by taxpayers.