Days before strict gun laws begin in their state, many Marylanders flocked south.
The Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Va. hosted a gun show Friday evening, selling many weapons and magazines Maryland residents will not be able to purchase starting Oct. 1.
The bill requires people who buy a handgun to submit fingerprints to Maryland State Police. It also bans dozens of assault-style weapons, but those who owned the weapons before the law goes into effect will be allowed to keep them. The bill also bans 20-round magazines.
Marylanders, like Elgin Fontaine, trekked to Chantilly. Fontaine bought an AR-10 assault weapon, one of the 45 of its kind that will be banned in his state beginning Tuesday.
“The ban is going to wipe out a lot of guns, and this particular style of gun I have is going to be banned,” Fontaine said.
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley released a written statement through his spokesperson saying, “The vast majority of Marylanders support these commonsense efforts to reduce gun violence. The new law will take effect Tuesday and it will make families safer.”
Those buying a gun in Maryland will also have to be fingerprinted. 20 round magazines will also be illegal as of October 1
Are those Marylanders buying up guns, magazines and ammo doing anything illegal? No. The soon to be banned products will be grandfathered in if purchased before October 1.
So gun sales will be great this weekend. Its probably good for everyone to get all their weapons before the stock market teeter totters off the deep end should the government close down and the country defaults on its debts. We will be in no-man’s land should that happen.
As an aside, talking on a handset cell phone will become a primary offense in Maryland.
Fingerprinted for exercising a right? I didn’t know that.
I am very happy to living in free America.
Which may change if McAuliffe becomes governor.
How about being ultra-sounded for exercising a right? I guess that isn’t important because it isn’t happening to you. How about having to wait 24 hours to exercise a right?
I guess it depends on whose freedom is more important. Mine is more important to me. I guess you don’t seem to understand that under Cuccinelli women will lost rights that are legally theirs.
Actually, most companies require finger printing. I don’t have a problem with it. It isn’t punishment. Why would you object to being finger printed for any reason?
Is there a third party being affected by said right that has no say in the action?
Why would I object to being fingerprinted? Why should I give anyone such permanent identifiable information? I’ve been fingerprinted for specific reasons. But, if one must be fingerprinted to buy a gun…then start fingerprinting them to buy a book.
Is here a third party? yes, those who get shot without their permission.
Let’s see, with a personhood act that would bestow personhood on fertilized ovum, is that what you are calling a third party? Any personwhood act based on fertilization makes most hormonal birth control illegal. Yea, I think my rights are being denied. The problem is, you are trying to minimize my rights while making yours sacrosanct. That just isn’t how it works. Whether you agree with laws codifying birth control and abortion or not, I still have a constitutional right to those things. I plan on protecting those rights, whether I chose to exercise them or not.
Do books have the potential to kill people? Don’t plan on teaching if you don’t consent to fingerprinting. Yes, its permanent and its identifiable. It should be. I would also not have a problem with fingerprinting being the order of the day for a fly security card or getting a drivers license.
I was finger printed for a job when I was 17 because I was bonded. It didn’t bother me at all.
Cargo, are you at the gun show?
@Moon-howler
Shooting someone is not a right.
So…lets fingerprint and record everyone that gets an abortion and put it in a federal database.
We may not have a “personhood” bill, but there is still another life involved. Or are you denying that there is a life involved….say at 12 weeks? 16 weeks? Is that not a baby?
As for it being a “constitutional right” no. Its not. It is considered a civil right based upon law. It is not in the Constitution. Nor is the right to privacy.
Of course…. we can use the right to privacy to deny fingerprinting for guns…along with any form of registry or paperwork. Perhaps thats the tactic to use. The right of privacy.
Do books have the potential to kill….yep. Just look at what happened under those inspired by The Communist Manifesto, Mein Kampf, The Little Red Book, etc.
Nope…not at the gun show.. I have been to that one, though.
So now words are killing. You are getting really far fetched.
The right to abortion and contraception are both protected by the US Constitution whether you like it or not. That right is not without some restrictions. The right to bear arms is not unrestricted. Very few rights are unrestricted.
You tell me what you think babies are? How about fertilized ova in a petri dish? Are those babies? Roe vs Wade recognized an increasing state interest in regulating abortion.
Obviously finger printing in order to purchase a gun would be for a reason. Oh let’s just think about what that could be. I can think of several. I actually can’t think of a single reason to be finger printed to have any medical procedure. That doesn’t even make sense, but most laws restricting abortion don’t make sense–especially in Virginia.
@Moon-howler
Words can kill, indirectly. Ask the victims of riot incited by another.
What reason could there be for fingerprinting during a gun purchase? Or any other right?
Lets go with that constitutional right to privacy. Therefore, the gov’t has no business knowing mine. At all.