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Posted on 04/21/2008 7:47:09 PM PDT by neverdem
| Maryland State Police Seeking to Retool Ballistic Imaging Program! |
| Monday, April 21, 2008 |
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Please Make Your Voice Heard Today! The Maryland State Police have quietly drafted new regulations on the state’s ballistic imaging program, the Maryland Integrated Ballistics Identification System (MD-IBIS). |
Now, the Maryland State Police are looking to expand this program with no cause and clarification for the changes.
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These anti-Constitutional paranoid leftists are not fooling anyone. Their goal is to disarm the armed law-abiding American public...a force they fear more than anything. They fear the Second Amendment for the exact reason it was included in the Bill of Rights.
Eyes wide open.
Has anyone ever shown these fools what a file and sand paper does to metal.
The only way this would work is for it to become a prison sentence to allow a gun to be stolen from you.
Because most crimes are committed with a “hot” weapon.
Why is such a beautiful state governed by idiots?
CSSJR
If we do not wish to lose our freedom, we must learn to tolerate our
neighbor’s right to freedom even though he might express that freedom
in a manner we consider to be eccentric.
I was never too good with rules to begin with.
/johnny/
As longs they keep taking away rights a little at a time the leftist have nothing to fear.
I’m so glad I live in a free state now.
(Ironically, that is the outdated nickname of MD, the free state.)
So they can develop a data base of a casing from every firearm sold in the state.
sssssshh
bump
They already do that. Every time a handgun is sold, a fired cartridge case has to be sent to the Maryland Patrol. If I remember correctly, this program has not resulted in a single conviction in the 8 or 9 years of the program. I’m pretty sure it hasn’t even led to any arrests.
Close, but it is so they can develop a de facto registry of every firearm sold in the state.
If you send in the info, you are registered, as is your gun.
But, you can change your strike markings as a previous poster mentioned above, correct, rendering this silliness useless.
But, then they’ll make that illegal.
A readily available registry of firearms and owners in the state.
Let that sink in for a second.
With this program your guns are registered, something gun owners have been fighting tooth and nail for a long time. It isn't about the 'fingerprint', its about the registry.
Mostly because revolvers don't leave shell casings and regular cleaning with a stainless steel brush changes the rifling marks. Have they ever used a gun?
As an aside, I met a retired State cop who showed me the holster he retired with. The revolver was stuck to the leather from non-use and because inspections only looked at how you shined the holster and gun butt. For his own safety, he had an ankle holster and a personal weapon of untraceable origin.
On the bright side, it costs the taxpayers a million a year or so.
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
Because the majority of the electorate are idiots.
Sounds like a Darwin Award wannabee...
To paraphrase Mas Ayoob, "Bending down to draw from an ankle holster is just an invitation to getting kicked @$$ over teakettle"...
acknowledged. thank you.
Sorry, nothing needs to sink in. My guns are not registered anywhere/anyhow. I have legally obtained them without going thru any registration process or NICS check.
If this program is requiring registering guns, as I have been following the topic for a long time now, then folks need to do as I did. Buy without having to register or document.
You bought them long ago, then, or outside of Maryland, and used from private individuals.
A person who is not a regulated firearms dealer may not sell, rent, transfer, or purchase any regulated firearm without going through a regulated firearms dealer
From MSCM
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Purchase of a handgun or "assault weapon" from a dealer is subject to disapproval by the Maryland State Police during a seven-day waiting period.
The buyer must complete an application form which is sent by the dealer to the State Police for investigation. The applicant is required to provide information regarding his eligibility to purchase or possess a handgun, and a description (including a serial number) of the handgun being purchased. Fingerprints are not required. There is a $10 fee.
Simply put,(and please correct me if I am wrong), Maryland requires private sales to go through a dealer (FFL), and there is the de facto registration. Even a gift has to pass through the portal, so to speak, and otherwise the transaction is illegal.
A form 4473 is documentation, and franky, for all practical purposes registration.
I am not sure if the ballistic fingerprinting program requires used firearms to be 'fingerprinted' upon transfer, but if the program is expanded, any lawful transfers which must, by law, be routed through a dealer, will eventually be included, and the firearms entered into a de facto registry. So much as one record of any type indicating purchase of ammo (credit card?), optics, etc, could scuttle one in extremis.
All purchases would have to have been cash, private sale without documentation of any sort--and that includes firearms, ammo, accessories, etc.
If you are a Maryland resident, unless you have been pretty scrupulous (or operating outside their laws, or have not purchased a firearm since 1968) there is a record somewhere.
If this program is requiring registering guns, as I have been following the topic for a long time now, then folks need to do as I did. Buy without having to register or document.
I have purchased firearms legally, without documentation, where I live (NOT Maryland). I reccommend for those whose states do not demand routing purchases through dealers or NICS to speak with folks who have inherited arms as part of an estate who may not want them and make private purchases there. Some fine arms can be found at reasonable prices, without paperwork.
If you want the latest stuff, that may not work. I'd also reccommend keeping these arms separate from the ones which are documented, having the same caliber as documented arms if there is a mix, so purchases of ammo for the documented arms can 'cover' for the ones which are not. A credit card purchase of any firearms and ammo may provide documentation which could give you away, otherwise. Better yet, buy ammo with cash.
Furthermore, I would suggest merely ducking the law is not enough. Getting these laws off the books is eminently preferable.
You may feel I am 'paranoid', but I remember as a child in Maryland when my Father would put a check in the mail and get a firearm delivered back, with the only 'government intervention' from the postal employees who delivered the order one way and the firearm the other.
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