Bertfish
Throw bread on me
There's a lot of pessimism in this thread and I understand it. I was born and raised in NY. Before I moved to MD I had an unrestricted carry permit so I know first hand how onerous the system is.
My prediction is that SCOTUS will strike down so called good cause or proper cause requirements leaving all the other components of current licensing schemes intact.
Where I respectfully disagree with the other posters is when it comes to how MD will react. I don't think they'll challenge the issue at all in court, nor do I believe they will raise the fees for a W&C permit or harass applicants with long wait times.
In my opinion, MD will make the W&C permit as difficult to obtain and as worthless as possible by imposing far more substantial training requirements than they do now in addition to putting as many locations off limits as they can possibly get away with.
Imagine a requirement for 96 hours of training, at least 16 hours of which are live fire with a requirement to move and shoot and expend oh, let's say, 2,000 rounds. And this training must all be completed within 30 days. That would deter a lot of people due to time and expense and I guarantee no court would ever strike such a requirement down.
So called sensitive areas are another issue. If you want a preview of what MD will do, look at Illinois: no carry in parks or nature areas, on public transit, amusement parks, restaurants that serve alcohol and on and on. Basically, you can carry to the grocery store and the bank. Obviously that's an oversimplification but not by much.
I think this case will be a victory but I think it will be an imperfect victory.
This is what I said up thread
They will maliciously comply and make it so damned hard to get that most people won't