Posted on 02/20/2010 4:54:28 AM PST by marktwain
A couple weeks ago, Maryland state Senator Michael Lenett (D) introduced a bill to ban so called "assault weapons"--common, semi-automatic, detachable magazine fed rifles, in other words. Maryland's gun laws are already horribly restrictive, but SB 516 would have made them dramatically worse.
Gratifyingly, though, Maryland residents are apparently mad as (heck), and aren't going to take it anymore, and they mustered enough grassroots pressure to have the bill withdrawn.
We know from first hand knowledge that the incredible pressure, to the tune of several hundred emails and calls a day, brought to bear upon the sponsor of this bill was responsible for the sponsor pulling it.
Old fashioned grassroots activism. That's what gun rights advocates have, and what the forcible citizen disarmament lobby can't figure out how to buy.
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Excellent! The people’s republic of Maryland is scary.
...really surprised that gun owners could do this...because of it’s huge black Democrat/ultra liberal white Democrat coalition, Maryland is one of the most repressive states for gun owners.
Maryland isn't really as liberal as it appears. The liberal majorities are wide, but shallow.
Although, I know a lady who's husband is an armed agent, required to be armed at all times. She thinks that anybody with more than one firearm is a massacre waiting to happen and should be locked up. Even intelligent people can be stupid sometimes.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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