Taser bans in Maryland overturned

ras_oscar · Mar 1, 2017

Boondock Saint said:
I didn't know that Baltimore County was a party to a Taser suit at this point. More details have to be somewhere around here?

I haven't been in a rush to go get one, but if push every came to shove, I imagine an email from the SA saying they weren't enforcing it would be the end of matters. Still, I'd love to see the law off the books.

doubt they'll do that. My understanding is there are still local laws on the books regulating firearms, despite MD state preemption. Always a chance they'll be able to bully an uninformed defendand

Hondo · Mar 1, 2017

Where does Frederick stand on this?

wolfwood · Mar 1, 2017

aray said:
Why did the lawsuit not pick up Annapolis and Ocean City initially as well?

two different sets of lawyer and we had a problem getting a plaintiff in Annapolis initially. I did Annapolis and George Lyons did the other places.

Gryphon · Mar 1, 2017

DC-W said:
The law is still on the books in BaltCo though. Residents are still unable to lawfully purchase a taser.
(psssst, this plaintiff would know )

Thank you Sir! I have one picked out, just trying to decide if I am buying local post County legislation to repeal, or if I will order online or buy elsewhere and bring into the County in defiance of an illegal County ordinance. Putz Kamenetz and the Baltimore County Office of Law are more than a little slow on this one.They are holding a bag with nothing but IOUs for when they owe a successful litigant attorney fees for their recalcitrant and unequivocal violation of someone's Constitutional right. Stoopid use of my taxes, but no one ever accused Kamenetz of being bright.

monkey · Mar 2, 2017

I'm assuming Rockville, MD is still on the no-go list?

dblas · Mar 2, 2017

Hondo said:
Where does Frederick stand on this?

Frederick (both city and county) have no problem letting there residents defend themselves.

dblas · Mar 2, 2017

monkey said:
I'm assuming Rockville, MD is still on the no-go list?

Never were, nor is MoCo.

EHinson · Mar 2, 2017

Why was this ever in place at all. Why would people have a problem with tasers in the first place?

rbird7282 · Mar 2, 2017

EHinson said:
Why was this ever in place at all. Why would people have a problem with tasers in the first place?

The Overlords want you to do as your told Subject

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wolfwood · Mar 2, 2017

The places we sued are the only places we could identify which had taser bans. If you live in a city in Maryland that still bans tasers which was not part of these lawsuits please post and cite the law.

Stoveman · Mar 2, 2017

EHinson said:
Why was this ever in place at all. Why would people have a problem with tasers in the first place?

I heard on the news when Annapolis was doing their about face that the Chief LEO over there thought that "they could be used against police officers".

No shit, so could a knife a car or a baseball bat.....

PO2012 · Mar 11, 2017

wolfwood said:
The places we sued are the only places we could identify which had taser bans. If you live in a city in Maryland that still bans tasers which was not part of these lawsuits please post and cite the law.

Westminster City in Carroll County

§ 106-15 Stun guns.
A.
For the purpose of this section, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings as defined by this section:

PERSON
Any individual, firm, partnership, association or corporation.

STUN GUNS
An electronic device which is specifically designed to temporarily incapacitate a person with a nonlethal electric shock caused by direct contact or projectile but shall not include any device, such as cattle prods or nerve stimulators, specifically designed for and used in the medical or agricultural field.

B.
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, give away, lend, rent or in any manner transfer a stun gun to any person.
C.
It shall be unlawful for any person to possess, use, fire or discharge a stun gun.
D.
Nothing in this section shall be held to apply to any law enforcement officer while in performance of official duty.

wolfwood · Mar 11, 2017

Anyone live in Westminister and want to be a plaintiff in a lawsuit?
I'd love to rep you.

redeemed.man · Mar 11, 2017

wolfwood said:
Anyone live in Westminister and want to be a plaintiff in a lawsuit?
I'd love to rep you.

What happened to DC? I thought they agreed to repeal their ban? No news on the actual repeal?

Abacab · Mar 11, 2017

EHinson said:
Why was this ever in place at all. Why would people have a problem with tasers in the first place?

Baltimore City banned them in 1985. The councilman that submitted the ban requested that surrounding jurisdictions ban them as well in order to facilitate the City's ban. Per the 1985 Washington Post article, the only reason given for banning them by the councilman was "some brute might take it away from an old lady trying to use it and use it against her."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...18a-8dbc-be56516d807c/?utm_term=.bba9c58e77e8

Magnumst · Mar 11, 2017

wolfwood said:
Anyone live in Westminister and want to be a plaintiff in a lawsuit?
I'd love to rep you.

Do you have to be a Westminster resident or just a carroll County resident?

wolfwood · Mar 12, 2017

Magnumst said:
Do you have to be a Westminster resident or just a carroll County resident?

A lawsuit could be brought if you traveled to Westminster on a regular basis but I'd rather have someone that actually lives there.

To the other poster D.C.'s law got overturned several months ago.

press1280 · Mar 12, 2017

Abacab said:
Baltimore City banned them in 1985. The councilman that submitted the ban requested that surrounding jurisdictions ban them as well in order to facilitate the City's ban. Per the 1985 Washington Post article, the only reason given for banning them by the councilman was "some brute might take it away from an old lady trying to use it and use it against her."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...18a-8dbc-be56516d807c/?utm_term=.bba9c58e77e8

Which is unfortunately enough to uphold a law under the new and improved Federal Circuit "intermediate" scrutiny.

FrankOceanXray · Mar 14, 2017

wolfwood said:
A lawsuit could be brought if you traveled to Westminster on a regular basis but I'd rather have someone that actually lives there.

To the other poster D.C.'s law got overturned several months ago.

Thank you for what you do.

Privateer · Mar 15, 2017

Did OC drop their ban or are they still on the list?

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