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  • Brickman301

    Ultimate Member
    Mar 23, 2015
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    FREDERICK, MD
    My experiences are the same as most others have had.

    Most of the Fudds (I hate the word) don’t know and don’t care about the new laws that might be coming.
    Over the years I’ve told many, about laws that are or might be changing. Most don’t care about “assault weapon” ( another word I hate) bans.
    It doesn’t apply to them, they don’t own any, so they could care less. Some/a lot even think, no one should own them. They don’t understand or believe, their firearms will be next on the chopping block.

    As far as the ammo laws go, I’ve had different responses.
    Some have a few boxes of ammo and don’t care because they have all they need. Remember, most hunters aren’t shooters, so a box of rifle ammo last them a long time. If they have 10 boxes, they are set for life.

    Others are pissed because they can’t find what they need, or are unwilling to pay today’s price.

    The ones that are pissed hopefully wake up, and start paying attention, on how to change things in the future.
     

    Adolph Oliver Bush

    Ultimate Member
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    Dec 13, 2015
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    I will be taking my membership over to AGC (Using my MSI membership) for much less expensive range fees (By half).


    As you know, this is just one of the many reasons to support MSI. Thanks for doing so, and thanks for always showing up in Annapolis!
     

    Adolph Oliver Bush

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    Dec 13, 2015
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    The bottom line is that it got passed, and it shouldn't have. You and I know that once a law is passed, it can be decades, if ever, to undo the damage. DC's gun ban, which was clearly unconstitutional from its very inception, took almost 35 years to overturn. How ya like them apples? FSA 2013 pushes the limit, but those corrupt goons actually used Heller as a basis for their argument for why they could do it - that's how twisted the corrupt politicians of this state are. There's not a snowball's chance in hell that FSA 2013 will ever be lifted.

    Maryland will forever languish under that turd of legislation, and the corrupt left in this state will continue to chip away at it to the point where the restrictions will become so numerous and convoluted it will be next to impossible to partake in a firearms hobby without running afoul of something. Then when you do, your guns will be confiscated and you'll be stripped of your rights to own more. If you think that's not coming in states like Komifornia or Marylandistan, IMO you're being naive.


    Are you going to make it easy for them, or harder? Every day is a choice.
     

    Chat-Bot

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    Oct 17, 2020
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    It takes cajones to wave said flag out front. Sometimes the lawmakers need to see THAT. Just sayin"....

    Drawers?

    You mean these. мячи
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    dblas

    Past President, MSI
    MDS Supporter
    Apr 6, 2011
    13,087
    As you know, this is just one of the many reasons to support MSI. Thanks for doing so, and thanks for always showing up in Annapolis!

    Been a minute since we have hung out, we need to get the gang together, if for no other reason than to break bread, drink a beer or two and catch up.
     

    BeoBill

    Crank in the Third Row
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    Oct 3, 2013
    27,064
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    It takes cajones to wave said flag out front. Sometimes the lawmakers need to see THAT. Just sayin"....

    "Waving the flag out front" became much more difficult with this session. Providing in-person testimony is essentially a thing of the past. Lawyers Mall gatherings are off limits because of the "PANDEMIC". Even the Governor's essentially just a figurehead, due to a veto-proof MGA majority and no power to withhold funding. And our overseers don't give a damn about us tax cattle until the elections roll around.

    All we can do is vote. And bring a friend. And get that friend to bring a friend. That's all completely anonymous. Eventually we'll either wear the bastids down or they'll overreach so much that it hits Joe Sixpack where he lives and he and all of his friends come to their legiscreature's house or office looking for scalps.

    Remember, Trump won against the odds and cheating in 2016 because enough people got fed up enough to do something...
     

    trickg

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    Jul 22, 2008
    14,598
    Glen Burnie
    Are you going to make it easy for them, or harder? Every day is a choice.
    It's like trying to bail out the Titanic with a bucket when thousands of gallons are pouring in every second. At some point the smart money is in just getting the hell off of the sinking ship.

    I suppose it would be different for me if I was born and grew up here, but I didn't, and frankly, I've never particularly cared for living here - at least not in Central Maryland - it's too populated, too liberal, too much traffic, people drive poorly, etc. I have no allegiance to this state other than the fact that I married into it, but she's just as ready to move to some place warmer, quieter, less populated, and a lot more conservative.

    So to answer the question, am I going to make it easier or harder? The truth is, I'm indifferent - I simply don't really care about it other than how it directly affects me currently.

    The deal breaker for me with trying to fight Maryland gun laws was having FSA 2013 rammed up our backsides regardless of the protests. When that law passed I realized that Maryland is beyond the point where it can be saved because the high population liberal idiots elect the idiots in charge, and the ignorant seem to want to willfully stay stay that way.

    Want more proof? We had 8 YEARS of Martin Owe'Malley. This state showed the door to Bob Erhlich - the guy who fixed the financial mess of Parris Glendenning and got the state moving in the right direction.

    Within 4 years of Owe'Malley taking office we were worse off in virtually every single way, yet these idiots gave him another 4 years, which put the state into an awful tailspin. Crumbling infrastructure, taxes and fees through the roof, and unbelievable mismanagement of the state budget, including the money the casinos were bringing in.

    That's the state of Maryland. The idiotic gun laws are just the icing on the cake. Do I really need more justification for why I want to leave and go somewhere else rather than hopelessly trying to bail out a sinking ship?
     

    Adolph Oliver Bush

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    Dec 13, 2015
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    It's like trying to bail out the Titanic with a bucket when thousands of gallons are pouring in every second. At some point the smart money is in just getting the hell off of the sinking ship.

    So to answer the question, am I going to make it easier or harder? The truth is, I'm indifferent - I simply don't really care about it other than how it directly affects me currently.

    That's the state of Maryland. The idiotic gun laws are just the icing on the cake. Do I really need more justification for why I want to leave and go somewhere else rather than hopelessly trying to bail out a sinking ship?


    I wish you well. Good luck!


    https://redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/12/28/the-colorado-model-the-lefts-stratagem-for-turning-red-states-to-blue-n41631

    https://www.france24.com/en/tv-show...ting-demographics-turn-a-solid-red-state-blue

    https://www.newsweek.com/will-blue-invasion-red-state-america-finally-pay-off-2020-1519051

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...migration-patterns-should-terrify-gop/598153/

    https://www.mdshooters.com/showpost.php?p=6222625&postcount=4
     

    Slackdaddy

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    Jan 1, 2019
    5,850
    Democrats when pushing gun bans have ALWAYS said "we are not banning hunting guns"

    over the last 30 years I was more of a hunter that shot his hunting guns, (a lot at the range), than I was a "shooter" . In other words I spent a lot of time at the range with my hunting guns.

    My wake-up call is when MGA tried to ban ALL thumbhole stocks in MD,, I have been heavily involved since then. My testimony that year specifically laid out their lie. I have 6 hunting guns with Thumbhole stocks, many are single shot weapons, they would have banned them all.


    My experiences are the same as most others have had.

    Most of the Fudds (I hate the word) don’t know and don’t care about the new laws that might be coming.
    Over the years I’ve told many, about laws that are or might be changing. Most don’t care about “assault weapon” ( another word I hate) bans.
    It doesn’t apply to them, they don’t own any, so they could care less. Some/a lot even think, no one should own them. They don’t understand or believe, their firearms will be next on the chopping block.

    As far as the ammo laws go, I’ve had different responses.
    Some have a few boxes of ammo and don’t care because they have all they need. Remember, most hunters aren’t shooters, so a box of rifle ammo last them a long time. If they have 10 boxes, they are set for life.

    Others are pissed because they can’t find what they need, or are unwilling to pay today’s price.

    The ones that are pissed hopefully wake up, and start paying attention, on how to change things in the future.
     

    Sirex

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    Oct 30, 2010
    10,380
    Westminster, MD
    The club I belong to is filled with fudds. As pro 2A as they claim to be, many of them feel we don't need fully semi automatic rifles like ARs and AKs. They seem kinda scared of them. Shotguns, hunting rifles, black powder guns. There is a slow, but growing number of younger members, which I hope will shift the clubs overall perspective. I let my daughter do a magdump with the very last magazine of her 15-22 , and a club member, a board member I believe, who lives close, came over to check us out. Then at a meeting claimed he was scared because people were shooting machines guns, which was against the law, and clubs rules, which are both false.
     

    Chat-Bot

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    Oct 17, 2020
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    The club I belong to is filled with fudds. As pro 2A as they claim to be, many of them feel we don't need fully semi automatic rifles like ARs and AKs. They seem kinda scared of them. Shotguns, hunting rifles, black powder guns. There is a slow, but growing number of younger members, which I hope will shift the clubs overall perspective. I let my daughter do a magdump with the very last magazine of her 15-22 , and a club member, a board member I believe, who lives close, came over to check us out. Then at a meeting claimed he was scared because people were shooting machines guns, which was against the law, and clubs rules, which are both false.

    Time to vote that board member out.
     

    rbird7282

    Ultimate Member
    MDS Supporter
    Dec 6, 2012
    18,538
    Columbia
    Hunters won't notice until Atterbeary and Lee are finished with the deed. They think they are immune.


    I think that’s part of it, the other part is that they just don’t pay attention. Hell you’d be amazed at how many non-Fudd gun owners I run into who own AR’s, pistols, etc, that have no idea about pending legislation or even what the current laws are.


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    Pinecone

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    MDS Supporter
    Feb 4, 2013
    28,175
    I think that’s part of it, the other part is that they just don’t pay attention. Hell you’d be amazed at how many non-Fudd gun owners I run into who own AR’s, pistols, etc, that have no idea about pending legislation or even what the current laws are.

    As I have said, I have run into people that have NO idea about the HQL or even that they cannot buy/sell handguns face to face.

    I am sure that a LOT of long gun face to face transfers are going to happen by basically law abiding folks, because they don't know it is illegal.
     

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