Gun control advocates urge dismissal of Md. handgun permit lawsuit

[Hazcat]

March 22, 2011

A national gun control advocacy group on Tuesday weighed in on a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Maryland’s handgun permitting laws, saying the suit seeks to make the state’s gun laws like those in Arizona and would be “bad law and even worse policy.”

In an amicus brief, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence urges for the dismissal of a lawsuit brought last year by the Second Amendment Foundation on behalf of Hampstead resident Raymond Woolland, a Navy veteran who was denied a renewal of his handgun permit.

Brady Center President Paul Helmke said in a statement that Maryland has “wisely rejected the gun lobby’s agenda of ‘any gun, anywhere for anybody.’ Now the gun pushers want the courts to gut Maryland’s laws and let virtually anyone carry a hidden handgun in public.”

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Gun control advocates say the state’s laws are reasonable.

“While the gun lobby may want the courts to make Maryland’s gun laws like Arizona’s, the Tucson shootings are the freshest evidence that overturning the current permitting process would be bad law and even worse policy,” said Helmke, of the Brady center

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2011/03/gun_control_advocates_urge_dis.html

[jnevis]

Does it surpirse anyone? 
Did it do any good with Heller and McDonald?  It probably will here though.

[twyacht]

I guess Sarah and the Helmke, would have made this woman a statistic,....

http://www.wkrg.com/alabama/article/woman-shoots-ex-boyfriend-in-self-defense/1205638/Mar-21-2011_1-47-pm/

The Mobile County Sheriff's Office says a woman shot Rex Thompson when he kicked down her front door.
SEMMES, Alabama - A Mobile man will be taken to jail once he gets out of the hospital.

The Mobile County Sheriff's Office says Rex Thompson kicked down the front door of his girlfriend's home on Moffett Road in Semmes. She shot him in the left hand in self defense.

When Thompson is released from the hospital, he will be charged with attempted burglary, criminal mischief and domestic violence 3rd. His ex-girlfriend will not be face charges.will not be face charges.

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Please fwd. to Sarah,...

When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away.

"Gun Control - A theory espoused by some monumentally stupid people; who claim to believe, against all logic and common sense, that a violent predator who ignores the laws prohibiting them from robbing, raping, kidnapping, torturing and killing their fellow human beings will obey a law telling them that they cannot own a gun."
OldNoob

"Anti-gun politicians don't want women to have a gun and to use that gun to protect themselves from an ex boyfriend or husband who beats the hell out of her. They say "An order of protection will protect you" That is the most asinine statement anyone could say to a bruised woman with black eyes, broken nose and teeth knocked out."
PackinMama

These people need to be defeated, and become beggars in Central Park, as I walk by openly carrying my 1911..