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Don't count your chickens before they hatch, but this is breaking in the Washington Post about a manifest fissure on the Judiciary Committee about the so-called "Assault Weapons" ban in Maryland:
Proposals to change Maryland gun bill would allow some semiautomatic rifles
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Del. Kathleen M. Dumais, (D-Montgomery), vice chairwoman of the House Judiciary Committee, is one of several from O’Malley’s party who have grown skeptical that a full ban is needed.
Dumais said that after 10 years in Annapolis hearing gun-control bills, she’s more accepting that there are rural parts of Maryland where gun ownership is a central part of life.
She said she was also swayed in part by the testimony of some of the more than 1,300 people who traveled to Annapolis this month to oppose the bill before her committee. Dozens, including some Olympic hopefuls, testified that their livelihoods in competitive shooting could be threatened. Many veterans said they viewed it as a right to own weapons like the ones they were trained to use.
“Several people who testified about the competitive shooting gave me pause as to whether a complete ban is appropriate,” she said.
<snip> Much more here:
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...39fada-90cb-11e2-9abd-e4c5c9dc5e90_story.html
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Expect some ferocious arm-twisting and leg-breaking from Busch and O'Malley now. You all---in THIS forum---have begun to split the grabbers on their allegedly lowest-hanging fruit: the AWB! Don't stop now.
I certainly don't direct strategy around here, but perhaps we should start showing Dumais some loud conditional love?! Lord knows MOM is almost certainly hammering her hard.
I am so amped about this!
Proposals to change Maryland gun bill would allow some semiautomatic rifles
<snip>
Del. Kathleen M. Dumais, (D-Montgomery), vice chairwoman of the House Judiciary Committee, is one of several from O’Malley’s party who have grown skeptical that a full ban is needed.
Dumais said that after 10 years in Annapolis hearing gun-control bills, she’s more accepting that there are rural parts of Maryland where gun ownership is a central part of life.
She said she was also swayed in part by the testimony of some of the more than 1,300 people who traveled to Annapolis this month to oppose the bill before her committee. Dozens, including some Olympic hopefuls, testified that their livelihoods in competitive shooting could be threatened. Many veterans said they viewed it as a right to own weapons like the ones they were trained to use.
“Several people who testified about the competitive shooting gave me pause as to whether a complete ban is appropriate,” she said.
<snip> Much more here:
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...39fada-90cb-11e2-9abd-e4c5c9dc5e90_story.html
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Expect some ferocious arm-twisting and leg-breaking from Busch and O'Malley now. You all---in THIS forum---have begun to split the grabbers on their allegedly lowest-hanging fruit: the AWB! Don't stop now.
I certainly don't direct strategy around here, but perhaps we should start showing Dumais some loud conditional love?! Lord knows MOM is almost certainly hammering her hard.
I am so amped about this!
