ShafTed
Ultimate Member
MD law requires a 7 day wait for a regulated or treated as regulated firearm (AR/AK reciever). However MSP is the POC for NICS and would need (IIRC) legislative action to turn the FFL into the POC for NICS for regulated items. Then you could simply fill out a 4473 escaping the superflous, discriminatory and excessive 77R. MD Is now NICS compliant per a conversation with former MSP LD head Jack McCauley so we could make handguns 4473 and then just a 7 day wait.
Regarding computers at shows, I have seen at several shows some dealers will have one or more desktops set up at their tables to do sales, usually in use most of the time.
For the highlighted, as I recall there is simply a MOU with the ATF that MSP is the POC for NICS which could be changed to let the dealers do the background checks directly, simply by a letter from the governor with a new memorandum. The MSP would still have to check their 17 Magic Databases since that's the statute, it would just be a little simpler since the NICS would already be done. During a General Asylum session in Annapolis (can't remember which year) there was a bill to do just that, I testified in favor at the House committee hearing but the bill never escaped the Chairman's desk drawer.
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