On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 17:18:39 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote:


Until recently, if you bought a new firearm in Maryland, the shipping or
product box had to include from the manufacturer a spent shell casing in
an envelope that was sent to the Maryland State Police. The rumor is the
Staties here have many 55-gallon barrels full of spent shell casings
from the sale of tens of thousands of new firearms over the years.
Apparently no one ever bothered to compare those casings with the
casings found at crime scenes. In any event, the state of Maryland has
stopped collecting the shell casings.

It reminds me of the ammo logs retailers had to maintain for a few
years., I don't think the idiots in DC even had a clue about how much
ammo was purchased in the US every year. They had millions of pages of
hand printed logs that nobody ever looked at. Finally they all just
went into the landfill

It's really a corollary of the 10-round magazine limitation. You can't
buy larger mags in Maryland, but you can drive over to Virginia or any
other state where higher cap mags are legal, buy as many as you want,
drive back into Maryland and use them legally.


That sounds like a mistake, not a planned loophole in the law.
I am surprised Annapolis has not closed it.

I would like to see a ban on the sale and possession of bump stocks.
They serve no useful purpose for hunting or for self defense or for
competition.

I tend to agree. The question is how you write a law that accomplishes
it without eliminating other harmless modifications to a gun.
It would be easy to legislate against the current design but there are
guys with the law book in hand while their imagination runs wild.
I played with a thing many years ago that was just a small motor with
a cam on it that operated the trigger (an IBM part I just had a "hey"
moment with). It was a great way to waste ammo and probably far more
accurate than a bump stock but the novelty wore off pretty quickly.
I am not sure if it was illegal or not since there was no modification
of the firearm. The strange thing was IBM had a part number for the
motor and the bracket as a FRU.