Maryland Shall Issue | Legislative Update

By AmmoLand Editor Duncan Johnson

Maryland –-(Ammoland.com)- Well, it is starting to get exciting in Annapolis. We are tracking legislation and updating it often on our website with links to the bills and our testimony. Here is that link. We do want to highlight here a few of these bills and encourage our members (and other supporters of the Second Amendment) to contact their legislators and come out and testify. MSI needs your support.

We were off to a good start with SB 27, a bill sponsored by Senator Hough. That bill allows an applicant for a carry permit to submit an application for a carry permit without first taking all the training. Upon receiving preliminary approval of the application from the State Police, the applicant then has 120 days to get the training to get the permit. The Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee scheduled early hearings on SB 27, issued a favorable report in a near-unanimous vote and the Bill has already passed the Senate and is now before the House of Delegates. Our testimony on the bill can be found here. This bill is identical to the one passed last year by the House of Delegates and we remain hopeful …Read the Rest

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