Maryland Senate passes gun control legislation

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Maryland Senate passes gun control legislation

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Maryland Senate approved a comprehensive gun control bill on Thursday that includes a ban on assault weapons and fingerprinting for prospective handgun buyers.
The Democratic-controlled Senate passed the bill 28-19 and sent it on to the House of Delegates, according to the chamber's website.
Democratic Governor Martin O'Malley proposed the measure in the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut, school massacre in December in which 20 children and six adults died. The rampage reignited a national debate on gun control.
The bill has a licensing requirement for handgun buyers to submit fingerprints to state police. Gun buyers also have to complete an eight-hour safety training course and undergo a more rigorous background check before purchasing a weapon.
The measure bars anyone who has been involuntarily committed due to mental illness from possessing a firearm. It also bans assault weapons and limits magazine sizes.
(Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Andre Grenon)

Looks like the House of Delegates is the only thing stopping this.

 

[Diamondback6]

Say bye-bye to Beretta, MD... be nice if they'd take a stronger stand and join the companies trying to close the Police Loophole, but baby steps first, and relocating out of a hostile location is a big one.

 

[NWCP]

Beretta is already considering WVA and VA as potential new home.

 

[JERRY]

beretta wont leave maryland. sure, they might open another plant somewhere else and say "i toldja so" but they will still keep the acokeke maryland plant as at least an office.

none of the "big boys" will leave the northeast either, and none of the major gun maufacturers who supply police agencies now will stop doing so in commie states.

 

[mgkdrgn]

I'm now more sure than ever that those Maryland Conceal Carry Permits will be out in the mail any day now .... not.

 

[Sam1911]

I'm now more sure than ever that those Maryland Conceal Carry Permits will be out in the mail any day now .... not.

Unrelated.

That is now out of the hands of the MD legislature or executive.

 

[Old Fuff]

... but they will still keep the acokeke maryland plant as at least an office.

Ruger was (and is) incorporated in CT., and for that reason maintains a small office there. But they no longer have any manufacturing facilities there, and it is those that generate money that can be taxed, and provide a meaningful number of jobs and support to the local and state economy.

Beretta will have no trouble finding states that are more friendly toward firearms, and Industrial Development Commissions in those states will not hesitate to make them some very attractive offers. Maryland on the other hand is giving them nothing that makes moving unattractive.

If they get the right offer they will move.