Couple years back, when I still owned a handful of subguns, we had occasion to have the county police come out to our home. Faulty ADT alarm, kid bringing a gun to school to threaten my son, minor stuff. What was odd was, one cop parked out front and came up to the house, the second one parked about fifty yards away on a side street, observing. I mentioned it to an acquaintance - Maryland State Police officer - and he said it was because I owned class III guns. Maryland has CLEO sign off - I didn't have a trust yet - and he told me they logged everything in the police computers and shared it with local law enforcement. Said it came up on the computer when they were dispatched. That's why they sent a second cop, as backup. I was stunned. Happened several times over the years I owned the guns, even when a neighbor called. Had another cop tell me the same story. Pretty weird. Time went by, I sold the last of my machineguns. Cops have come out once for a false alarm and once to take a report when a neighbor was burglarized. One cop, one car.
This gets weirder.
AFTER I sold all the machineguns I was at the Fulton MSP barracks getting fingerprinted for a suppressor purchase. I asked to go upstairs to make sure my record was cleared of all the MGs. Maryland has this annual reporting thing, and a ten dollar tax to record all the MGs you own. So I went upstairs, explained that I just wanted to make sure my record was clear so I could sleep with both eyes closed knowing I probably wouldn't be getting a 4AM flashbang wakeup sometime because I wasn't paying my ten dollars every year. The cop laughed, then told me my record was cleared of all MGs, but it did show 49 regulated firearms and he began reading off a list - in chronological order - from the first gun I bought in Maryland in 1996.
Very interesting indeed. Every 77R (form for a "regulated firearm") that goes through the Maryland Staatspolizei (ahem, Geheime Staatspolizei?) is recorded, apparently.
Linked to DL? How about your home address?
