Letter from the Maryland Shall Issue (MSI) President!

By Justin Stakes

Annapolis, MD -(AmmoLand.com)- To Our Membership,

We are excited about filing the HQL suit. As previously reported, this suit directly challenges the Handgun Qualification License requirements imposed by Maryland law, both as set forth in the statute, and as implemented by the Maryland State Police.

Those requirements violate the Second Amendment of the Constitution by placing unjustifiable and overwhelming burdens on the right of law-abiding citizens to purchase a handgun for the home. In good conscience, we cannot allow the HQL requirements to go unchallenged.

That said, MSI has definitely not lost focus on the right to carry. Carry is still very much our mission. However, the Woollard litigation settled, for now, the facial constitutionality of Maryland’s good and substantial requirement for carry. The Fourth Circuit’s decision in that case, while wrong, is unfortunately binding precedent on that issue. As a lawyer, I can tell you that pretty much precludes further litigation on that point, at least until the Supreme Court acts on the issue. In the meantime, we lend support to those who continue to contest similar requirements in other jurisdictions, such as Baker in the Ninth Circuit and Grace …Read the Rest

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