Open Carry Baltimore City??

NateIU10 said:

Does he have a Maryland license to carry a handgun? If yes, perfectly fine. If not, it's illegal.

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PUBLIC SAFETY
TITLE 5. FIREARMS
SUBTITLE 3. HANDGUN PERMITS

Md. PUBLIC SAFETY Code Ann. § 5-303 (2012)

§ 5-303. Permit required


A person shall have a permit issued under this subtitle before the person carries, wears, or transports a handgun.

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§ 4-203. Wearing, carrying, or transporting handgun


(a) Prohibited. --

(1) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, a person may not:

(i) wear, carry, or transport a handgun, whether concealed or open, on or about the person;

(ii) wear, carry, or knowingly transport a handgun, whether concealed or open, in a vehicle traveling on a road or parking lot generally used by the public, highway, waterway, or airway of the State;

(iii) violate item (i) or (ii) of this paragraph while on public school property in the State; or

(iv) violate item (i) or (ii) of this paragraph with the deliberate purpose of injuring or killing another person.

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(2) There is a rebuttable presumption that a person who transports a handgun under paragraph (1)(ii) of this subsection transports the handgun knowingly.
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(b) Exceptions. -- This section does not prohibit:

(1) the wearing, carrying, or transporting of a handgun by a person who is on active assignment engaged in law enforcement, is authorized at the time and under the circumstances to wear, carry, or transport the handgun as part of the person's official equipment, and is:

(i) a law enforcement official of the United States, the State, or a county or city of the State;

(ii) a member of the armed forces of the United States or of the National Guard on duty or traveling to or from duty;

(iii) a law enforcement official of another state or subdivision of another state temporarily in this State on official business;

(iv) a correctional officer or warden of a correctional facility in the State;

(v) a sheriff or full-time assistant or deputy sheriff of the State; or

(vi) a temporary or part-time sheriff's deputy;
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(2) the wearing, carrying, or transporting of a handgun by a person to whom a permit to wear, carry, or transport the handgun has been issued under Title 5, Subtitle 3 of the Public Safety Article;

(3) the carrying of a handgun on the person or in a vehicle while the person is transporting the handgun to or from the place of legal purchase or sale, or to or from a bona fide repair shop, or between bona fide residences of the person, or between the bona fide residence and place of business of the person, if the business is operated and owned substantially by the person if each handgun is unloaded and carried in an enclosed case or an enclosed holster;

(4) the wearing, carrying, or transporting by a person of a handgun used in connection with an organized military activity, a target shoot, formal or informal target practice, sport shooting event, hunting, a Department of Natural Resources-sponsored firearms and hunter safety class, trapping, or a dog obedience training class or show, while the person is engaged in, on the way to, or returning from that activity if each handgun is unloaded and carried in an enclosed case or an enclosed holster;

(5) the moving by a bona fide gun collector of part or all of the collector's gun collection from place to place for public or private exhibition if each handgun is unloaded and carried in an enclosed case or an enclosed holster;

(6) the wearing, carrying, or transporting of a handgun by a person on real estate that the person owns or leases or where the person resides or within the confines of a business establishment that the person owns or leases;

(7) the wearing, carrying, or transporting of a handgun by a supervisory employee:

(i) in the course of employment;

(ii) within the confines of the business establishment in which the supervisory employee is employed; and

(iii) when so authorized by the owner or manager of the business establishmen​

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mountainman said:

That guy is probably police working side job. Probably not a good idea to advertise, I don't understand the open carry idea. If I were the bad guy, I'd whack him in the back of the head and take his gun.
Concealed carry makes sense to me.

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NateIU10 said:

Does he have a Maryland license to carry a handgun? If yes, perfectly fine. If not, it's illegal.

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Norton said:

Maryland law makes no distinction between open and concealed carry.

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amoebicmagician said:

that's technically not true. You're allowed to open carry in MD according to both the US and State of MD constitution.

The entrenched libtards make it as difficult as possible for you though, and instruct police to 'find a way' to arrest you if you open carry to discourage others from doing the same.

And to OP, why is that a big deal? What's wrong with a Liquor Store employee open carrying? They are one of the most robbed businesses, and when did it become a sin to exercise a god given right guaranteed to you under the constitution?

You sound just like the people who deep down equate guns with evil and seek to shield our children from ever knowing that penises, vaginas, and now guns, exist.

Frankly it's a losing battle, and if I may say so, pretty pointless- doing more harm than good in many many many cases

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avrose said:

That's the confusion. Open vs. concealed. I find it hard to believe that Baltimore City, of all places, permits open carry but cannot find the specific law in that regard.

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mountainman said:

Probably not a good idea to advertise, I don't understand the open carry idea.

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amoebicmagician said:

And to OP, why is that a big deal? What's wrong with a Liquor Store employee open carrying? They are one of the most robbed businesses, and when did it become a sin to exercise a god given right guaranteed to you under the constitution?

You sound just like the people who deep down equate guns with evil and seek to shield our children from ever knowing that penises, vaginas, and now guns, exist.

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amoebicmagician said:

Are you sure that the text you quoted is not superseded somewhere else? Because I've been told several times by several law enforcement officers, as well as a Sheriff, that it's TECHNICALLY legal to open carry in MD, but IN PRACTICE completely unacceptable and the police have orders to jail you any way they can if you do.

Then again, I guess police aren't infallible.

Still, kind of weird so many people that are supposed to know being wrong about this.

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avrose said:

I live just south of Towson inside the city line in a well-to-do neighborhood. The local shopping center has an employee who works for an upscale liquor store (Wells Market) who parades around in broad daylight with a high caliber handgun displayed open carry, frequently walking to other stores in the center to get his lunch (pizza parlor, with kids present during the day). I have no problem with a concealed weapons permit (I am a gun owner), but this does not seem appropriate. I have been unable to find anything regarding the law in this regard.

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