MD - High Court Hears State Gun Law Arguments

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Md. High Court Hears State Gun Law Arguments

POSTED: 7:20 pm EDT October 7, 2010
UPDATED: 7:48 pm EDT October 7, 2010

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler told members of the state's top court Thursday that recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings prove state laws restricting people's right to carry guns in public are constitutional, despite the arguments of a man seeking to overturn the law.

An attorney representing Charles F. Williams Jr., who was arrested in 2007 for carrying a handgun in public in Prince George's County, argued the same two recent rulings protect his client's right to bear arms.

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http://www.wbaltv.com/r/25321067/detail.html

Steve

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Md. Court of Appeals upholds state's handgun laws

January 5, 2011 - 2:57pm

BALTIMORE - Maryland's highest court has ruled the state's handgun laws are still constitutional despite a 2008 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that gutted gun statutes in D.C.

In an opinion (http://mdcourts.gov/opinions/coa/2011/16a10.pdf) issued Wednesday, the Maryland Court of Appeals affirmed a gun possession charge levied in Prince George's County against Charles F. Williams, Jr.

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http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=2223036

Steve

[alismith]

You know your state is screwed when they can't even understand words written in English, such as those used by our Founding Fathers.

I seriously doubt MD will ever allow private, law-abiding citizens to exercise their right to carry firearms for protection.

[aliceinchains]

Fuck that state. Communists at work.

[Dr_Scholl]

I saw that coming from a mile away.

[alismith]

It just dawned on me.

MD is one of the few states that allows only criminals to carry weapons, but not law-abiding citizens.

I say this because 99.9% of the time a criminal is prosecuted, the gun charge is automatically dropped and the State does nothing about it. We are supposed to have an "automatic, mandatory" jail time for the use of a handgun in the commission of a crime, yet, when the case comes to court, it's always dropped.

If the State were serious about disarming criminals, the implementation of that law would go a long way in doing that.

Oh, well, what can you expect from a state run by career, liberal, politicians and judges?

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Supreme Court refuses potentially landmark gun-control case

A Maryland man appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that the state's gun-control laws are too restrictive. The case was seen as a potentially pivotal examination of Second Amendment rights, but the Supreme Court refused it.

By Warren Richey (http://www.csmonitor.com/About/Contact/Staff-Writers/Warren-Richey), Staff writer / October 3, 2011

Washington

The US Supreme Court (http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/U.S.+Supreme+Court) on Monday turned down the appeal of a Maryland (http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Maryland) man who said the state’s restrictive gun-permit law violated his constitutional right to carry a firearm in public for self defense.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/1003/Supreme-Court-refuses-potentially-landmark-gun-control-case

Steve