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To: missycocopuffs; Sans-Culotte
My thought, too. Also, how would you practice with your home weapon at a range in order to be truly effective if the state says it’s illegal to transport it? I am finding this out first-hand as I am taking the NRA Personal Protection Class this month and having fired a weapon only once about 15 years ago. Making it illegal to transport a gun to a location where one can actually practice with the weapon effectively disarms an individual...but I guess that’s the point of these idiotic laws.

I found the Maryland handgun law here. You will have to navigate to Maryland Code | Criminal Law | Title 4: Weapon Crimes. And the disclaimer ... IANAL ...

Maryland's handgun law is similarly structured to California's (though not the same) in that it makes a blanket prohibition and then codifies certain exceptions. Exceptions exist to allow transport of your handgun from place of purchase to your home, home to business (if you're the business owner/operator), home to repair shop, home to target shoots and other shooting activities. When transporting it, the handgun must be unloaded and in an enclosed case or enclosing holster. You must travel directly to/from the allowed locations.

If you are going to own firearms you really need to know the laws that will affect you. I have How to Own a Gun & Stay Out of Jail (California edition). You should find something like this which includes coverage for Maryland.

21 posted on 11/04/2009 1:59:11 PM PST by Database
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To: Database

I should have been more clear in my post. I am in Michigan where we are *slightly* more gun-friendly.

My point was the Maryland law does effectively disarm individuals if they aren’t allowed to practice with the weapon they are going to be using to defend their homes and families...and that was a statement based on what I had read in the posted article. But it would appear from what you have posted from Maryland handgun law that transporting an unloaded, enclosed weapon between home and gun range is legal. Thanks for providing that info, which wasn’t in the original article.

Actually, Maryland’s law sounds pretty close to my understanding of MI laws regarding transport of handguns. Yep, I am trying to learn them all :-)


22 posted on 11/04/2009 2:09:43 PM PST by missycocopuffs
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