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  • abean4187

    Ultimate Member
    Apr 16, 2013
    1,327
    I’m going to be getting the license once it comes out because I have little hope that this will be declared unconstitutional by any court.

    The real issue that if/when this becomes constitutional, the other gun grabber states will follow suit and most likely make the licensing procedure worse. Once that happens we might as well kiss any new people goodbye from the gun community as no one is going to jump through all these hoops.
     

    Bedwell

    Member
    Aug 14, 2013
    11
    How do you obtain the license? Just walk into the local MSP barrack after Oct. 1st with ID and a safety course certificate? Or is this still unknown?
     

    ddeanjohnson

    autodidact
    Aug 21, 2010
    801
    How do you obtain the license? Just walk into the local MSP barrack after Oct. 1st with ID and a safety course certificate? Or is this still unknown?

    The plan is for the application process to be available on line, perhaps as early as September 15. If you already lawfully own a regulated firearm, you will be exempt from the training requirement, but not the fingerprinting requirement.
     

    ddeanjohnson

    autodidact
    Aug 21, 2010
    801
    This is the first I've seen the 9/15 date for the HQL app process. Last I saw, MSP's official position was that they planned to have it up by 10/1. Can you direct us to where the Sep date came from?

    Personal communication with MSP. September 15 is a target date, as I understand it, not a guarantee.
     

    RavensFan11

    Active Member
    May 28, 2013
    363
    Timonium
    There will be NO requirement to get an HQL if you legally own now and make no future purchases..is that correct? Only need one to buy after Oct. 1?
     

    Kelson1066

    Ultimate Member
    Jul 31, 2012
    1,028
    Frederick County
    Personal communication with MSP. September 15 is a target date, as I understand it, not a guarantee.

    So it's like a soft opening just in time to have the system flooded and crash so that they can get the bugs out before 10/1.

    9/15 or 10/1 I think it makes no difference thousands of applications will be filed on that day.
     

    ddeanjohnson

    autodidact
    Aug 21, 2010
    801
    There will be NO requirement to get an HQL if you legally own now and make no future purchases..is that correct? Only need one to buy after Oct. 1?

    This is correct. It may be of interest to note, however, that those who establish Maryland residency for the first time after October 1 will be required to register all regulated firearms within 90 days of establishing residency, and pay a fee. The MSP has prepared a new form, designated 77D, for this purpose. The same requirement would apply to a current Maryland resident who moves away and loses legal residency, and then returns in the future to re-establish legal residency. This appears to be a straight registration requirement and does not require the HQL.
     
    If my family business wasn't so deeply rooted and dependent on this area I would move in a heart beat! I already informed my son that when I retire his mother and I are moving to the Carolinas where people still have the right to live their lives with freedom and get away from these ridiculous tax burdens that this Socialist state is known for. This whole HQL is a joke. "firearms safety act" my as$! :puke:
     

    AJRB

    Ultimate Member
    May 8, 2013
    1,584
    The plan is for the application process to be available on line, perhaps as early as September 15. If you already lawfully own a regulated firearm, you will be exempt from the training requirement, but not the fingerprinting requirement.

    http://www.oag.state.md.us/Press/Frosh 01 29 13.pdf

    I tried the link again and it takes a good 15-30 secs to load up. Should work ok. I think it is pdf format, so if your computer is not pulling up the pdf of the letter, just click http://www.oag.state.md.us/Press/2013/012913.html at the bottom of the page to pull up the pdf of the letter.
     

    L0gic

    Ultimate Member
    Mar 2, 2013
    2,953
    This is correct. It may be of interest to note, however, that those who establish Maryland residency for the first time after October 1 will be required to register all regulated firearms within 90 days of establishing residency, and pay a fee. The MSP has prepared a new form, designated 77D, for this purpose. The same requirement would apply to a current Maryland resident who moves away and loses legal residency, and then returns in the future to re-establish legal residency. This appears to be a straight registration requirement and does not require the HQL.

    I feel sorry for that person, you got out but they dragged you back in and stripped you of even more rights than before you left.
     

    ChrisD

    Ultimate Member
    MDS Supporter
    Jan 19, 2013
    2,992
    Conowingo
    If my family business wasn't so deeply rooted and dependent on this area I would move in a heart beat! I already informed my son that when I retire his mother and I are moving to the Carolinas where people still have the right to live their lives with freedom and get away from these ridiculous tax burdens that this Socialist state is known for. This whole HQL is a joke. "firearms safety act" my as$! :puke:

    Your interpreting the title, firearms safety act wrong. It is not for the safety of the law abiding citizens. By impeding our rights, they ensure safety for the criminal element.
     

    wesser1

    Active Member
    Dec 19, 2012
    597
    Havre de Grace
    I see no reason why the state cannot also require a license to practice religion, a license to speak, and certainly a license to vote. Why not, right? The only right that specifically states "shall not be infringed" in its wording is allowed to be infringed upon, so certainly all others can in the same manner. Let the sliding begin!
     

    peckman28

    Active Member
    Aug 27, 2010
    150
    Glen Burnie
    The very notion that this crap is constitutional at all is sickening. There is nothing in the Constitution that permits government at any level to infringe on your explicitly guaranteed rights just because it fulfills an "objective" of theirs.
     

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