Oh, he's not just lobbying/testifying, he writes briefs and replies to lawsuits for Everytown.Want to guess why the Everytown rep (who I believe is a lawyer) is doing lobbying work and not pleading cases instead?
Not really ill conceived, just tilted to how they want the jurisprudence to be, and the jurisprudence they would like potential laws to be built on. The idea being that if a bill based on the jurisprudence they believe becomes law, it will bleed the 2A community dry with lawsuits overturning the erroneous laws.Most of this stuff is just ill conceived. I guess I am almost relieved that they mostly write stuff up based on feelings rather than hard legislative and judicial research to put together laws that might really stand judicial scrutiny. Or even ones where their own party isn't picking them apart after listening to their constituents.
Senator Smith may be a Democrat, but I believe him to be as close to an old school "blue dog" Democrat in todays terms. He doesn't drink the koolaide, and like he predecessor, takes the time to understand what the ultimate ramifications of the legislation in his committee could be.One thing MD has proved, thankfully, is it is no New Jersey or New York. I realize the dust hasn't settled after the hearing and we have 2 months and some change till Sine Die. But NY? They special sessioned it, had effectively no public input or hearings and voted it out in what, one day? A day and a half? NJ took a little longer, but also rammed it through (unchanged?).