Thinking of moving...

[boisepaw]

Hi all. I'm an old guy...60 years old...who has been shooting for about 20 years now in Idaho and Oregon. I was a late bloomer but it would be fair to say that I am now something of a "gun nut" in that I simply love to own and shoot quality firearms.

But life has changed a little bit. Our first grandchild was born at the end of October and what do new grandparents do when that happens but think about moving to be closer to that new little person. He is pretty much irresistible to his grandmother and to me. So...we are considering moving to be closer to our kids in Annapolis.

However, owning quite a few firearms as I do, the thought of moving to Maryland scares the daylights out of me. i shoot pistols (lots of NRA bullseye and a little bit of IDPA but lots of self-defense "practice" on my own). I shoot a lot of sporting clays and five stand. And I own a number of rifles and am just learning to shoot them. In particularly I would love to learn some precision longer range rifle shooting...500 yards? 1000 yards? I would love to get any thoughts y'all might share with me about everything from the availability of places to shoot to the number of competitions around (bullseye, IDPA, three gun etc. etc.) to the realities of gun ownership in the state of Maryland. Perhaps even some insight into what parts of Maryland might be more to my liking. Or thoughts about nearby Pennsylvania or Virginia.

While I am perfectly legal to buy firearms and have done so through my local FFL many, many times, I also own a large number of guns purchased FTF. Did I say I own a LOT of guns. I don't relish the nightmare scenario of having to get permission from the state of Maryland to continue to own all of the guns that I currently own.

So if anyone can shed some light for me on all of those questions, I would really appreciate it. I apologize if I don't know or follow all the correct protocols but if anyone would like to respond to my personal e-mail address, I would love to have some "conversations" there. It is "boisepaw@gmail.com".

Or if I need to start a new thread to ask those questions more generally, perhaps someone can help me figure out how to do that.

Thanks in advance!

 

[swinokur]

deleted because I gave bad info.

 

[swinokur]

Howdy. Join the fight if you move here.

www.marylandshallissue.org
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[Name Taken]

Welcome to the forum.

Honestly I would look at living in VA, DE, then PA...might be able to flip DE and PA.

Maryland taxes your retirement, taxes you to death in all other aspects, has a high cost of living, houses are expensive, gun laws are complicated to impossible to understand and it just sucks.

Depending on what you own and when you bought it you might not even be able to bring certain firearms into MD. Most of these firearms are sporting rifles like AR-15's and AK's but there are some exceptions.

One word of advice is to make sure your children aren't moving anytime soon. Would suck to up and move to get close to them only to have them go somewhere else.

Stay away from MD.

 

[shootin the breeze]

Welcome to the forum.

Honestly I would look at living in VA, DE, then PA...might be able to flip DE and PA.

Maryland taxes your retirement, taxes you to death in all other aspects, has a high cost of living, houses are expensive, gun laws are complicated to impossible to understand and it just sucks.

Depending on what you own and when you bought it you might not even be able to bring certain firearms into MD. Most of these firearms are sporting rifles like AR-15's and AK's but there are some exceptions.

One word of advice is to make sure your children aren't moving anytime soon. Would suck to up and move to get close to them only to have them go somewhere else.

Stay away from MD.

What he said!

 

[swinokur]

what they said x2

VA,PA and DE are more tax and gun friendly.

 

[traveller]

VA is a nice state.

 

[trickg]

Don't move to Maryland - if owning, shooting and continuing to purchase guns is important to you, you don't want to be here. Of course it depends on where your grandchild is here in Maryland - find the closest town across the state line and move there - doesn't matter if it's VA, PA or DE. For me PA would be my first choice, with VA a close second and DE a distant third.

 

[BlackBart]

I moved to Pa in Sept......... STILL don't have my DL, maybe the end of this week. Gun friendly, taxes steep and very chickenshit rules and regs BUT beautiful country and out in the sticks a lot of bang for the buck.

 

[Alea Jacta Est]

Delaware is literally minutes from Annapolis ...not in the summertime though. Cheap too.

Maryland is simply, absolutely and irrevocably not a good idea. Ya gotta do what you gotta do though.

Best of luck with your decision.

I might consider renting was it me...

 

[Boom Boom]

Welcome aboard! Given your large firearms collection, don't move here. You'll regret it, especially the handgun qualification license, handgun roster, and all the banned long guns if you want to maintain and grow your collection unencumbered by a nanny state. Follow your gut instinct and look elsewhere. Between PA and VA, it's a tough choice. Most of PA is more laid back and old-fashioned. I love that lifestyle. Northern VA is major hustle, bustle, traffic, and high population density. Most of southeast and southwest VA are nice. All depends on the lifestyle you're looking for.

 

[kenpo333]

Eastern Shore of Maryland not too bad. Wicomico county has a very gun friendly sheriff and states attorney but Delaware is nice too. Close to the beach and Annapolis.

 

[rob]

Don't forget West Virginia as an option, especially if your family is in western MD.

Rob

 

[Boom Boom]

Good point. I forgot to mention WV. Very close to western and central MD. Very gun friendly. Not much hustle and bustle.

 

[bmorewineguy]

Delaware Beaches is the place to be. It's an hour and a half to Annapolis and the grand kids will love the beach in the summer.

 

[44man]

like the others said, don't move here. your tax dollars will be wasted and this is NOT a free state. move to VA or DE.

 

[BigDaddy]

If you owned the pistols before 10-1-13, you don't need to do anything. Same for long guns.

That's not right. Handguns are regulated firearms and need to be registered if he moves.
It's not only AR's that are banned, some handguns, some rifles or specific configurations of rifles.

https://www.mdsp.org/Organization/SupportServicesBureau/LicensingDivision/MainLicensingPage/LicensingandRegistration/Registration/NewResident.aspx

From this page you can directly search long guns on this page:
https://www.mdsp.org/Organization/SupportServicesBureau/LicensingDivision/MainLicensingPage/LicensingandRegistration/Firearms/FirearmSearch.aspx

to search handguns:
https://www.mdsp.org/Organization/SupportServicesBureau/LicensingDivision/MainLicensingPage/HandgunRoster.aspx

If you are into silencers forget DE.

You have to understand that people commute a long distance around here because of the cost of living (and the neighborhoods) around DC. People live on the eastern shore of MD (Across a bridge which frequently has accidents) to drive to DC or they drive from PA into Baltimore. We are right up there with Los Angeles in commute time.

 

[swinokur]

You are mostly correct However his hand guns don't need to be on the roster for him to bring them. Only if they are purchased or transferred in MD. They still must be registered as you point out though. And regulated rifles are banned only if they were purchased after Oct 1, 2013. Pre 10-1 rifles that are regulated need only be registered

but my mistake

ETA-to keep it accurate I'm gonna delete my post-sorry for the confusion on my part.

Attached is the list of "regulated" long guns (now banned) unless you purchased them before 10-1-13. registration required. It cannot also be a copycat weapon with an OAL < 29", or 2 of the below features

Flash Hider
folding stock
grenande launcher

Guns not on the list are not regulated and need not be registered.

obviously IANAL (i'd be a crappy one)

 

[JCB003]

I agree with Delaware. I would look into Bethany Beach. You can get a single family home a few minutes from the beach in the $350K-450K range. It's a family beach town, not too crowded. My in-laws moved there and we love going down in the summer for a week and even go down in the winter for a few weekends. Probably a 1 1/2 - 2 hour ride to Annapolis. Plenty of gun clubs / sportsman associations on the Eastern shore.

 

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