We just got out of the courtroom on the fifth floor of the federal building just a little while ago.
The longer it went on it seemed, to our side, that it resembled the Theater of the Absurd. On its face our case is so compelling that of course we expect the judge to be up there shaking his head in wonderment at the revelations provided by the Maryland Shall Issue legal team.
But instead the judge, who is a classic old-school government loving fuddy-duddy seem to be collecting a nickel for every time he used the word commonsense or the word obvious. His comments from the bench indicated his sense that ENFORCED training was something that was an "obvious" good thing and commonsensical.
Where our side made headway--where we actually got the judge to look somewhat startled--was him hearing that there are no gun ranges in Baltimore and that even the active discharging a firearm within the city limits of Baltimore is illegal. The HQL, surprise!, is unobtainable in Maryland's largest metropolis.
As much as I expected that this demand to go forward with discovery and to a trial, would ellicit from the judge a decision right there and then that MSI could go forward....nope, he announced it he was taking everything under advisement
More later, after we all exit this urban jungle.
The longer it went on it seemed, to our side, that it resembled the Theater of the Absurd. On its face our case is so compelling that of course we expect the judge to be up there shaking his head in wonderment at the revelations provided by the Maryland Shall Issue legal team.
But instead the judge, who is a classic old-school government loving fuddy-duddy seem to be collecting a nickel for every time he used the word commonsense or the word obvious. His comments from the bench indicated his sense that ENFORCED training was something that was an "obvious" good thing and commonsensical.
Where our side made headway--where we actually got the judge to look somewhat startled--was him hearing that there are no gun ranges in Baltimore and that even the active discharging a firearm within the city limits of Baltimore is illegal. The HQL, surprise!, is unobtainable in Maryland's largest metropolis.
As much as I expected that this demand to go forward with discovery and to a trial, would ellicit from the judge a decision right there and then that MSI could go forward....nope, he announced it he was taking everything under advisement
More later, after we all exit this urban jungle.
