Dreago
Ultimate Member
- Jul 27, 2009
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Dear Gun Rights Advocate:
New Gun Regulations NOT fully posted on Maryland Register as promised.
I want to provide you with an update concerning the new gun law that is to go into effect on October 1, 2013.
I am on the Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review Committee (AELR) of the Md. General Assembly. The AELR committee reviews proposed regulations. As you may already know, the MD State Police (MSP) is responsible for promulgating the regulations to implement the new gun law (SB 281).
As a member of the AELR committee, I was given a draft copy of the new proposed regulations to comment on before they were to have been published on September 6 in the Maryland Register. Once published (and official), the regulations will be open to public comment.
However, they are not publishing the entire set of new regulations on September 6 as promised. They have only published an abbreviated section of the definitions.
The more important set of the regulations dealing with hand gun permits were only "introduced" on their web site. They did not publish the full text of these regulations, but rather a two sentence line of introduction: "Chapter 13 of the Acts of 1972, Codified as Public Safety Article, Title 5, Subtitle 3, Annotated Code of Maryland (Handgun Permit Law), provided for the Secretary of State Police to issue handgun permits under specified conditions. The following regulations have been adopted pursuant to this legislation." There is nothing else posted after this line.
I have my own thoughts as to why they are not being fully published at this time. First and foremost, I think the law was extremely poorly written. SB 281 was filled with a lot of ambiguities and incorrect information that I believe the MSP is finding difficult to correct through these regulations.
I had hoped to be able to share my own review of these regulations once they had officially been published on the web site of the Maryland Register. I expect they are making changes to them as we speak and just haven't finished with them as of yet.
The Maryland Register is published twice a month on a Friday. By law, regulations must be posted for public review and comment. September 20th is the next Friday that new regulations will be posted on their web site.
That web site is: http://www.dsd.state.md.us/MDRegister/mdregister.aspx.
I will be back in touch with you as I learn more.
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New Gun Regulations NOT fully posted on Maryland Register as promised.
I want to provide you with an update concerning the new gun law that is to go into effect on October 1, 2013.
I am on the Administrative, Executive and Legislative Review Committee (AELR) of the Md. General Assembly. The AELR committee reviews proposed regulations. As you may already know, the MD State Police (MSP) is responsible for promulgating the regulations to implement the new gun law (SB 281).
As a member of the AELR committee, I was given a draft copy of the new proposed regulations to comment on before they were to have been published on September 6 in the Maryland Register. Once published (and official), the regulations will be open to public comment.
However, they are not publishing the entire set of new regulations on September 6 as promised. They have only published an abbreviated section of the definitions.
The more important set of the regulations dealing with hand gun permits were only "introduced" on their web site. They did not publish the full text of these regulations, but rather a two sentence line of introduction: "Chapter 13 of the Acts of 1972, Codified as Public Safety Article, Title 5, Subtitle 3, Annotated Code of Maryland (Handgun Permit Law), provided for the Secretary of State Police to issue handgun permits under specified conditions. The following regulations have been adopted pursuant to this legislation." There is nothing else posted after this line.
I have my own thoughts as to why they are not being fully published at this time. First and foremost, I think the law was extremely poorly written. SB 281 was filled with a lot of ambiguities and incorrect information that I believe the MSP is finding difficult to correct through these regulations.
I had hoped to be able to share my own review of these regulations once they had officially been published on the web site of the Maryland Register. I expect they are making changes to them as we speak and just haven't finished with them as of yet.
The Maryland Register is published twice a month on a Friday. By law, regulations must be posted for public review and comment. September 20th is the next Friday that new regulations will be posted on their web site.
That web site is: http://www.dsd.state.md.us/MDRegister/mdregister.aspx.
I will be back in touch with you as I learn more.
Nancy Jacobs Signature
Nancy
Help me keep you informed on legislative updates like this one
regarding SB 281 by donating today. Contributions like yours keeps the
communication through the mail, website and emails possible.
Thank you for your support and involvement.
Donate Online
Mail a contribution with this printable form
