Md. lawmakers look to ban untraceable guns in next session

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  • Jim12

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    Jan 30, 2013
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    Md. lawmakers look to ban untraceable guns in next session

    https://marylandreporter.com/2018/12/12/md-lawmakers-look-to-ban-untraceable-guns-in-next-session/

    By Brooks DuBose

    Capital News Service

    With about a month until the 2019 legislature convenes on Jan. 9, the new Democratic House of Delegates majority leader is looking to continue the progress made last session on gun violence prevention by banning 3D and ghost guns in the state.

    House Majority Leader Kathleen Dumais, D-Montgomery, said she will be introducing a bill banning the possession of 3D-printed guns — plastic guns capable of shooting live ammunition and made in a 3D printer — and ghost guns — nearly complete and without serial numbers — in Maryland.

    Federal law already prohibits the creation of untraceable guns.

    Dumais said her bill would provide legislative support to the legal actions already taken by Attorney General Brian Frosh.

    In July, Frosh joined a lawsuit filed by Washington state’s attorney general to block the release of instructions for 3D guns to the public by Defense Distributed Inc., an organization that sought to distribute the digital schematics. A final ruling on the case is expected to be made this month.

    “Obviously, the state can’t regulate the internet, but we can certainly indicate what is allowable in Maryland or what you can possess in Maryland,” Dumais said of the plastic guns. “They might be legal otherwise, but you’re not going to be able to create them or have them in Maryland.”

    Specifics on how the ban will be implemented are not yet clear, but a draft of the bill would be available in the coming weeks, she said.

    “Absurd” say 2A advocates

    Mark Pennak, the president of Maryland Shall Issue, a Second Amendment advocacy group, called the potential legislation “absurd” and would represent a ban on “the possession of knowledge.”

    “No one has ever used it in a crime,” Pennak said. “It would cost far more to 3D-print (a gun) than to acquire a gun from on the street. It’s just hysteria and nothing more. ...” (cont'd)...

    https://marylandreporter.com/2018/12/12/md-lawmakers-look-to-ban-untraceable-guns-in-next-session/
     

    shootin the breeze

    Missed it by that much
    Dec 22, 2012
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    It may be histeria but it will happen. This will be an easy one for the dims to accomplish. The question is will you comply? Will you give up your completed 80%s and will you stop making them?
     

    cstone

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    Dec 12, 2018
    842
    Baltimore, MD
    I hear that the legislature has passed laws outlawing murder, rape, possession of scheduled drugs, etc... So successful with those measures it is only natural to move on to outlawing more things that they have no chance of actually stopping. Great job Democrats! ; )
     

    teratos

    My hair is amazing
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    Jan 22, 2009
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    It may be histeria but it will happen. This will be an easy one for the dims to accomplish. The question is will you comply? Will you give up your completed 80%s and will you stop making them?

    You know I don’t do the 80% thing.....

    This bit ...



    ... is incorrect of course.

    Sent from my Pixel XL using Tapatalk

    Of course, there will be a couple of knuckleheads who lecture the dims all about it.....
     

    44man

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    Feb 19, 2013
    10,129
    southern md
    And if anyone thinks they will grandfather what you have now your out of your mind

    They have in for us and our guns

    And they have an anti gun dem in the governors mansion to help them strip us of our rights

    Just think of the picture of hogannand the moms next session
     

    Inigoes

    Head'n for the hills
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    Dec 21, 2008
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    SoMD / West PA
    Looks like she wants to ban antiques and collectables. Many a gun was made commercially before GCA'68 without serial numbers.
     

    geda

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    Dec 24, 2017
    550
    cowcounty
    Curious how they would actually implement such a ban on otherwise legal items just because they started life as an "80%". Every gun in existence crossed the 80% completed point at some point. I see any logical effective approach having so much over reach that we may finally make it to the supreme court.

    Yea I know there is not logic to be applied here and banning all guns is their end goal.
     

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