I moved to MD a year or so back and hadn't been paying much attention to the law changes. I've shot shotgun for 30 years and had only minor intention of owning a handgun or rifle until I started hearing the publicity over 281 a few weeks back. After reading over the restrictions I knew it was time to go and finally get one of each, but sadly:
A. Didn't have much info on what exactly I wanted
B. Knew it was going to be tough to beat the deadline if any shops even still had stock.
Friday night I took the online safety thing, saturday morning I printed it out and headed to Freestate in White Marsh. I was there for about 4 hours straight trying out their rental Nine, .40 and a .223 rifle. By the time I had shot a few boxes of each, learned how to handle the guns safely, I had time to check just one more store, who had no sales, and run back and paid for a Sig 9mm and a DPMS TAC2.
I'm normally the kind of person who researches the hell out of things and makes up my mind what I really want and what I am willing to spend, but those options were out the window. I made the best calls I could with the info I had and it seems like I will be living with those purchases for the duration =)
I do want to say thanks to this board tho, I've been stuffing my head learning the lingo, the acronyms, the laws regarding my purchases and how 281 will affect us all. It's a LOT to take in. I'm getting there tho!
Sam
A. Didn't have much info on what exactly I wanted
B. Knew it was going to be tough to beat the deadline if any shops even still had stock.
Friday night I took the online safety thing, saturday morning I printed it out and headed to Freestate in White Marsh. I was there for about 4 hours straight trying out their rental Nine, .40 and a .223 rifle. By the time I had shot a few boxes of each, learned how to handle the guns safely, I had time to check just one more store, who had no sales, and run back and paid for a Sig 9mm and a DPMS TAC2.
I'm normally the kind of person who researches the hell out of things and makes up my mind what I really want and what I am willing to spend, but those options were out the window. I made the best calls I could with the info I had and it seems like I will be living with those purchases for the duration =)
I do want to say thanks to this board tho, I've been stuffing my head learning the lingo, the acronyms, the laws regarding my purchases and how 281 will affect us all. It's a LOT to take in. I'm getting there tho!
Sam
Greetings!
