MD is moving in the right direction

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http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2012/03/05/md-gun-law-found-unconstitutional/

 

"BALTIMORE (AP) — The Second Amendment right to bear arms is not limited to the home and Maryland’s requirement that residents show a “good and substantial reason” to get a handgun permit is unconstitutional, according to a federal judge’s opinion filed Monday.

 

States can channel the way residents exercise their rights, but because Maryland’s goal was to minimize the number of firearms outside homes by limiting the privilege to those who could demonstrate “good reason,” it had turned into a rationing system, he wrote.

“A citizen may not be required to offer a `good and substantial reason’ why he should be permitted to exercise his rights,” Legg wrote. “The right’s existence is all the reason he needs.”

 

 

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[1LtCAP 4,262]

now if only we could get a judge to do that to our justifiable need........

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I just looked at it closer and realized that it's two years old. A little more research, which I should have done before posting, shows that the ruling was overturned on appeal.

 

My bad.

 

 

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[siderman 1,137]

Nah, the bad's not on you thats for sure.MD has been going down the 2a crapper for a while too.

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I spent the first 18 years of my life there. It started down the turd chute when they elected a Kennedy to the senate.

 

 

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[mipafox 438]

Don't do that to me!

[71ragtopgoat 23]

Its not just MD several states are being restricted via the court.