That says all
you need to know about what it's like to live in Maryland, a state that
will now—
"require
gun owners, as well as new purchasers of firearms, to get
fingerprinted, take eight hours of classroom study, and pay for a more
extensive background check.
"
That's right.
People who
have
managed to spend their whole lives without being subjected to having
fingerprints taken by the police, will now be defacto perp-walked into
the local
constabulary to get inked. Gov. Martinet O'Malley, who crafted this
brainstorm, is called the "White Obama," in these parts
(something that he
sees as approbation), and (I am not making this up) was recently
ridiculed for affecting Obama's speech pattern.
And there's this.
Beretta, the world's largest gun
manufacturers, has it's U.S. operations in The Free State. Possession
of its 9mm pistol, with its 13-bullet magazine, would be illegal under
the Democrat-controlled General Assembly's new law.
Beretta
USA executives have grown weary of the state’s attitude on guns
and reportedly have backed up their threat by pointing out the company
moved a warehouse to neighboring Virginia in 1990 when Maryland
previously tightened gun laws. ... now they are threatening to
move the entire operation to Free
Virginia.
If Beretta leaves, Maryland's next largest private sector empoyer
(11 employees) is Harry's Septic Tank Service. O'Malley,
who is ramping up for a 2016 White House run, has
often referred to his success in reducing crime while he was mayor of
Baltimore from 1999 to 2007, claiming that under his administration
crime dropped by nearly 40 percent. The fact that he could never prove
where that statistic came from, nor could anyone else, doesn't matter.
By the By -Maryland's Senate
passed the bill, and the House is expected to rubber stamp it this
week. During
heaings last week, " Opponents of Gov. Martin O’Malley’s gun
control plan outnumbered advocates 40-to-1 at a hearing many lawmakers
called the longest they had ever seen."
We'll see.
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