Posted on 03/06/2014 12:06:32 AM PST by progunner
The House of Delegates is considering a bill that would link Maryland’s gun registry to its criminal database.
State law requires gun owners to surrender their weapons if they’re convicted of felonies or any violent crimes, but Del. Luiz Simmons, D-Montgomery, said Maryland State Police lack a systematic way of enforcing this. They can’t use their databases to identify gun owners convicted of crimes.
Simmons is chief sponsor of legislation to make that link.
State Police estimate that if they linked the databases, they would find 10 percent of registered gun owners — about 110,000 people — would be disqualified. They estimate a rate of 1 percent each year thereafter.
Under Simmons’ plan, police would run a systematic check at least twice a year.
The Department of Legislative Services believes it would cost about $300,000 to create the database. The department also anticipates a need for seven new full-time troopers to investigate findings from the new database, with a cost of more than $1 million a year for salaries and equipment.
California linked its gun and criminal registries in 2007 and has since sized more than 10,000 guns from people convicted of violent crimes, according to a news release from Simmons’ office. As of last year, the state had identified another 40,000 guns that police needed to track down, the news release states.
There are about1.1 million records in Maryland’s gun registry and more than 3 million in the criminal database, according to the Department of Legislative Services’ report.
Several independent gun advocates submitted written testimony before a Tuesday hearing. They argued against the measure, calling it unnecessary and potentially invasive.
“This smacks of a police state mentality,” said a resident named Ronald Smith.
Simmons was set to testify before the House Judicial Committee Tuesday evening.
They’ll continue to take as much as they can until they’re staring at about 20,000 of us exercising our RKBA right outside their office windows. Then they’ll drop a deuce in their shorts and rethink their whole life.
I must concur with you but I have a feeling it be more than 20,000. BTW,,,, great “about page”,,,, fine looking pups.
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That pic couldn’t help me to think that a good place to start would be where the sun doesn’t shine on them.
If they got the hubris to trump the constitution and break into your home, march on theirs. And I mean every officer’s home!
the thing that really gets me is that since we all know there is an elite plan to disarm us, how the freak do these low level state reps get their orders. i’m not being funny.
how do they know?
The highway patrol may be capable of dragging drunk drivers from behind the wheel, but if they get involved in criminal law enforcement, in violation of the Second Amendment, they’re gonna be way above their little heads. Here in NC, at least.
The Department of Legislative Services believes it would cost about $300,000 to create the database. The department also anticipates a need for seven new full-time troopers to investigate findings from the new database, with a cost of more than $1 million a year for salaries and equipment.
WHERE IS THE MONEY COMING FROM?
More like, it's time for gun owning conservatives from other states to get into their trucks and join in solidarity with the targeted citizens, just like we should do for Connecticut. Anything else is basically just cheap posturing. And in the absence of a bunch of truckloads of out-of-state supporters, it is wise for Maryland citizens to bury their guns in their back yard so they can choose the right time to fight against tyranny. If you let the JBTs choose, you lose.
I sure look forward to that scenario.
I must concur with you also. Deep inside I believe that it is going to get bloody in the near future. Oh well,,,, might have to go into overtime casting, sizing, lubricating and reloading. It IS bullets that wins wars. God bless us free men/women.
Makes paying ones debt to society clearly worth it huh....
Doom on the socialist democrat and rhino polidiots and the idiots that vote and finance them.
Woof.....
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
“How much more of this bullshit do these tyrants think they can get away with????”
Apparently as much as they want. Who is going to stop them?
Our state tax is already 10 percent. They are just going to make it 11 or 12 percent. No skin off their backs. jerks!
“or any violent crimes”
With the “or” added, it is clear the behavior wasn’t a felony, so just what would this include?
“Resisting arrest”? Which may mean you shrugged your shoulders at the wrong time....
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