BILL FAVORABLE AS AMENDED as it now any further amendments from the floor
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SB-281 Amendments
Muse amendments:
1. change training from 8 hours to 4 hours
2. change fee for license from $100 to $50
Frosh amendments:
1. some housekeeping amendments - ADOPTED
2. changes copycat AW to two-feature instead of one feature - ADOPTED
3. adds RR police to exceptions
adds posession by FFLs as an allowed exception to AW posession
excepts retired LE to receive an AW transferred by LE agency - ADOPTED
4. no need to re-register AW's purchased as regulated firearms - ADOPTED
5. licensed firearms manufacturer can continue to posses and transport AW's
retired LE would not have to get a handgun qualification license or training
exemption for training for firearm instructors - ADOPTED
6. records check housekeeping (MSP would handle submission to repository) - ADOPTED
7. clarifies how MSP would handle application, format etc.
firearms instructors would not have to take training course
renew requirement and fee $20 no-retraining, no re-firgerprinting - ADOPTED
8. replacement process and fee $20 for lost or stolen cards AMENDED TO SHALL UNLESS
OTHERWISE DISQUALIFIED - ADOPTED
9. housekeeping
adds 5.1.3.3(b) (c) takes out prohibition about ammo posession of minors (sort of) -
ADOPTED
10. mental health prohibitions for a firearms application re voluntary admissions adds 30
day admission disqualifies you - ADOPTED (ZIRKIN AMENDMENT REMOVE 30 DAYS AND ADDING ADMISSION VIA AN EMERGENCY ROOM AND ADMITTED UNDER AN EMERGENCY PETITION FROM A HEALTH PROFESSIONAL UNDER 10-622 AND DETERMINED HAVE A MENTAL DISORDER AND TO BE A DANGER TO THEMSELVES OR OTHERS - AMENDMENT FAILED)
11. mental health facility would be required to report to NICS - ADOPTED
12. clean up of mental health professional registration requirement that was no longer valid - ADOPTED
13. housekeeping about access to records for relief process - ADOPTED
14. changes agency to report to nics to corrections instead of MSP - ADOPTED
15. changes CCW training to 16 for initial, 8 hours for renewal - ADOPTED. (AMENDMENT FROM BROCHIN FOR SHALL ISSUE FAILED 5-6)
16. shotguns and rifles have same mental health disqualification as regulated firearm -
ADPOTED
17. add exemptions to training for CCW for retired LE, retired military and certified
firearms instructor - ADOPTED
18. MSP can give a handgun qualification license if you get a CCW permit - ADOPTED
Brochin amendment:
1. add danger to self as disqualifying factor for mental health issues (suicidal) -
WITHDRAWN (drafted to wrong section of law)
Frosh amendment:
19. gives MSP same authority to regulate firearms dealer as the ATF has (I assume they mean
revoke or suspend their Maryland regulated firearms dealer license, not their FFL) this was
SB266 adding this now to SB281 ADOPTED - (BROCHIN AMENDMENT - TO MAKE TIME LIMIT 48 HOURS -
ADOPTED) (SHANK AMENDMENT - MSP MAY INSPECT RECORDS WITH ADVANCE NOTICE - FAILED)
Brochin amendment:
2. handgun license expires in 10 years instead of 5 - ADOPTED
Jacobs amendment:
1. to make the license permanent - FAILED 5-6
Shank amendment:
1. to kill fingerprint requirement - FAILED 4-7
Getty amendment:
1. to add bay pilots to list of those exempted from purchasing AW's - FAILED 4-7
Jacobs amendment:
2. to kill licensing requirements - FAILED 5-6 (BROCHIN IN FAVOR)
Shank amendment:
1. excepts security contractors of US Govt from assault weapon ban - WITHDRAWN
Jacobs amendment:
3. repeals ballistic fingerprinting law - FAILED 5-5
Shank amendment:
2. removes live fire and marksmanship from the training requirements - FAILED 5-6
3. changes penalties for unregistered assault weapons to civil penalties (citing the problem
of deployed armed forces members) - WITHDRAWN
Jacobs amendment:
4. auxillary police officers exempted from the provisions of the bill - WITHDRAWN
Brochin amendment:
2. reduce fees to $25 for firearms license - FAILED 5-6
Jacobs amendment:
5. to remove antique firearms from the provisions of the bill - ADOPTED (I THINK)
Brochin amendment:
3. to kill license fees - FAILED
Shank amendment:
4. to specifically allow transport of legally possessed assault weapons - WITHDRAWN
Brochin amendment:
4. taking out random assault weapons whatever that is - FAILED 5-6
5. exempt armored car agencies from the provisions of the bill - FAILED 5-6