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On 4/11/14, 11:30 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:07:55 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

In the past if you wanted to buy a modern firearm here, you filled out a
couple of forms at the gunshop. If the purchase was a rifle or shotgun,
the usual phone background check was made and if you were ok, you took
the gun home that day. If you were buying a handgun, you had to wait
seven to 10 business days while the state police completed an additional
background check.

Simple enough.

Now, there's another layer.

If you are a civilian with no military background and you are not a cop,
you have to obtain a state Handgun Qualification License (HQL), and
there are several variables.

First time purchasers of handguns have to show proof they've taken a
qualifying handgun training course. I think that is a good idea.

Those without an existing carry permit also have to have submitted on
their behalf ($50) a set of electronic fingerprints taken by a couple of
local sheriff offices or by commercial vendors.

Everyone has to get the HQL and some get a pass on the training and
fingerprinting.

It takes the state about a week to issue the HQL.

The net effect is that the costs involved in obtaining a handgun have
gone up and are now about $100 if you have to get fingerprinted, and
another $25 if you have to get training, and the new processes add about
two weeks to getting the final OK from the staties.



OK, I guess they have fixed that crime problem. Maybe it is safe to go
to Bulletmore again. (last year they murdered 333)
I am sure all of those gang bangers are lining up for their HQL.
They can save the $100 because the cops already have their
fingerprints.



I drive up to Baltimore about every two weeks for a day long or half day
long marketing meeting with a client. Never encountered any problems. Go
there for dinner frequently, too. Probably fewer guys up there playing
banjo and forcing themselves anally on other guys than in Redneckville,
where you live, eh?
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On 4/11/14, 11:58 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:33:31 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:




I drive up to Baltimore about every two weeks for a day long or half day
long marketing meeting with a client. Never encountered any problems. Go
there for dinner frequently, too. Probably fewer guys up there playing
banjo and forcing themselves anally on other guys than in Redneckville,
where you live, eh?


That only happens up around Jacksonville where the real rednecks are.
(AKA South Georgia)
BTW Miami, the most dangerous city in Florida has a murder rate of
16.8 per 100,000. Bulletmore is over 37.

I would say you are just lucky or you don't actually move around much
there.



I've only been shot at twice in the United States, once in Mississippi
and once in Louisiana.

I had a firearm pulled on me in the Miami area by a rentacop. This was
after Hurricane Andrew when a labor organizer and I were returning a van
we had rented to depot near the airport. We had a lot of stuff and were
unloading it near where the shuttle bus would take us to the airport.
The site's rentacop didn't like that and had "words" with my buddy, who
wasn't having any of it. It got a little heated, and the rentacop drew
his pistol and waved it at us. My buddy disarmed the rentacop and had
the moron on the ground "faster than a speeding bullet," as it were.

This was an "old school" labor organizer, the ones I admired from the
good old days. You know, "either your signature or your brains will be
on the contract in the next two minutes..." Unfortunately that sort of
understandable "pressure" and violence has been replaced by the tactics
of the banksters and wall street lawyers.


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