Maryland gun applications soar as stricter control law looms

[OakRidgeStars]

The laws of unintended consequences strike again.

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From Fox News

Applications for gun purchases in Maryland are soaring ahead of the start of a tough new firearms law that sets new magazine capacity limits and bans the sale of certain types of assault weapons.

The Washington Times reported that state police received 85,141 gun-purchase applications this year through Aug. 31. That’s compared with 70,099 applications in all of 2012 and 46,339 applications in 2011. Maryland State Police have increased staffing to cope.

In August 2012, 38 employees were assigned to conduct background checks, but this year 73 employees are doing that work, according to Sgt. Marc Black. Black said 60 temporary staffers are also rotating hours.

“We’re looking at unprecedented numbers,” Maryland State Police Sgt. Marc Black told the newspaper. “We saw this coming.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09 ... law-looms/

[SHMIV]

Ohh... Sgt. Black says they all saw it coming, they did. It's almost as if nobody WANTED these laws to begin with.

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[Reverenddel]

(shrugs) Ya'll know my opinion.

I think every Libertarian, Conservative, Gun owner, or just freedom loving person from Maryland should move into NoVa, and force the Progressive/Commies into Maryland.

[RO73]

(shrugs) Ya'll know my opinion.

I think every Libertarian, Conservative, Gun owner, or just freedom loving person from Maryland should move into NoVa, and force the Progressive/Commies into Maryland.

I couldn't agree more!

[MarcSpaz]

I have been telling all my conservative friends in DC and Maryland that very thing for years.

[OakRidgeStars]

At least we don't have far to look to see our future. Remember in November.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls ... -3033.html

[Swampman]

At least we don't have far to look to see our future. Remember in November.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls ... -3033.html

+1!

[WRW]

It would be nice for the citizens of Md. to be able to move to Va., but it would be better for the Country if they would stay put and fix their current State. Ponder that for a bit.

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[GeneFrenkle]

Not sure why md is having such an issue. It isn't hard to mark them "Denied".

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[zykur]

Sadly I'm afraid we might not be too far behind Maryland after November . Two Democrat state senators a Democrat Governor and NoVA turning further blue every day.
I'm not moving any further south the heat is killing me.

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[Reverenddel]

If Terry Mac wins? Write your gun rights good bye... he is NO friend to the Commonwealth.

I would say he's as dangerous as Lil Timmy Boi Kaine... but that would be an insult to Lil' Timmy Boi...who sucks... badly.

Personally? Kentucky, and Tennessee are starting to look PREEEETTTYYY DAMNED good as of late!

[gunderwood]

Not sure why md is having such an issue. It isn't hard to mark them "Denied".

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Have you ever had a printer jam on you? Now imagine a very large, very fast application denier (aka fixed output printer) getting jammed. Takes a bit to undo, but the real problem is they don't want to miss any applications and a few got shredded when the jam started. Trying to reassemble the shredded applications to ensure they can properly be denied via the manual process is causing a backlog.

[GeneFrenkle]

Pc load letter, baby! Epson mx-80 all the way! actually, i rhink i might still have my dot matrix somewhere in my attic. 8 pins, i believe it was.

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[MarcSpaz]

Got to love it! Old technology rocks. I still have my DOS 6.22 floppies and FreeBSD in case I need real system stability. I can tell you this... No space craft ever ran on Windows OS. LOL

[GeneFrenkle]

I still have os/2 warp installation floppies, apple 2 gs. Geesh, 5 1/4" floppies, too. Anyone remeber elephant floppies?

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[MarcSpaz]

hahaha heck yea. My first computer had 2 5 1/4 drives and 1MB of RAM. One drive for the OS and the other for my apps. And my wife about tossed me out of the house when she her I paid $140 for the 1MB stick.

[Swampman]

I just dug out my Panasonic 24 pin dot matrix printer. Not getting rid of that. Don't have any more 5 1/4 inch drives, but I do have all my 3.25 inch DOS floppies. I'm set!

[DiscipleofJMB]

(shrugs) Ya'll know my opinion.

I think every Libertarian, Conservative, Gun owner, or just freedom loving person from Maryland should move into NoVa, and force the Progressive/Commies into Maryland.

That's what I did... I'm working on getting people in Marylandistan to defect to the Old Dominion state.

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[Reverenddel]

Bring them in brotha! One and all!

You know, that would be a valid usage of gun lobby money, put up posters, and billboards,

"GUNOWNERS! TIRED OF YOUR STATE MAKING YOU A CRIMINAL!? MOVE TO (X-Y-Z, WHATEVER IS THE CLOSEST GUN FRIENDLY STATE)! THEN WRITE YOUR FORMER GOVERNMENT FOLK, AND TELL THEM WHY THEY LOST YOUR TAX BASE!"

[SHMIV]

Wrw makes a good point. If all of us like minded folks end up in the same couple of states, the free states that we have all congregated to will eventually want to secede. And, y'all remember what happened the last time a few states saw fit to exercise the right to secede.

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