Tungsten
Ultimate Member
Does anyone know how to join the MSP? It is sounding like that may be a more realistic pathway to obtaining a permit from the crown.
The former MSP LD Commander just asked Corporal Taylor how many permit holders have been arrested for carrying outside their restrictions. None was the answer.
He then looked at the applicant and said "there, does that make you feel better?"
I SHIT YOU NOT!`
Hogan really picked a fine crew didnt he? He might as well just signed the damn bill.
Judge Smalkin's apparently multiple references to Snowden and Scherr suggest that he may have received (other than in open session or an announced closed session) either "legal advice" from the Attorney General's office and/or an ex parte communication on the same matter from MSP (again outside either an open session or an announced closed session).
Even assuming the Judge's view on the applicable law is one he formed after independent research on his own, any such research could not have failed to disclose the governing authority provided by the Fourth Circuit's decision in Woollard v Gallagher, 712 F.3d 865 (4th Cir. 2013), wherein the Court held that a lower court finding that Maryland's "good and substantial" requirement was unconstitutional must be reversed because Maryland law allows for wear and carry permits based on "palpable need." The "palpable need" standard thus is the only thing standing between the relevant Maryland law and unconstitutionality, and renders the application of the outdated (and unsupportable) Snowden and Scherr standards patently erroneous. An independent reason why neither Snowden nor Scherr can properly be applied is that neither construed the language of the present statute, and both relied on a "collective right" interpretation of the Second Amendment that the Supreme Court specifically rejected in the Heller and McDonald cases.
One can only hope that any attorney appearing before the HPRB would seek to educate the Judge and other Board members on these issues as well as matters pertaining to the Open Meetings Act.
Fat larry playing to both sides.