Maryland General Assembly Session 2019 Sine Die Report

By Ammoland

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Maryland General Assembly Closes for 2019 Session, After Action Report

Maryland – -(AmmoLand.com)- This was a truly…interesting…session. This year resulted in 27 House Gun Bills, 19 Senate Gun Bills, 12 House Hunting Bills, and 10 Senate Hunting Bills. With the passing of Maryland’s longest-serving Speaker of the House of Delegates, Michael E. Busch, Sine Die was a story of difficult negotiation overshadowed by a mixture of rememberance events.

I have updated the MSRPA 2019 Maryland General Assembly Bill Tracker (www.msrpa.org/2019-maryland-general-assembly-bill-tracker/) with the complete bill status as of midnight on Sine Die.

I will not touch on every bill but will highlight some of the more concerning bills from the session. They are presented in numerical order for ease of tracking.

House Bill 0095 / Delegate Dumais / Public Safety – Firearms Disqualifications – Antique Firearm (Shadé’s Law)

This bill, which has been presented now for several years, was withdrawn by the sponsor early in the session.

House Bill 0096 / Delegate Dumais / Public Safety – Regulated Firearms – Prohibition of Loans

This bill was modified from its original content but remained in a form that MSRPA opposed. It passed the House of Delegates, but never …Read the Rest

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