Maryland is set to target 110,000 citizens with gun confiscation under a new law that would link the state’s gun registry with its criminal database – and they have new troopers set to be hired to enforce door to door visits of these gun owners.
Confiscate guns from felons one day with their new ‘confiscation task force’, who’s it going to be the next?
Authorities in Maryland are set to target 110,000 citizens with gun confiscation under a new law that would link the state’s gun registry with its criminal database, with new troopers set to be hired to enforce door to door visits of illegal gun owners.
Image: Sig Sauer 1911 (YouTube).Maryland State Police complain that there is no way for them to identify gun owners who have been convicted of felonies, meaning they can’t check if weapons have been relinquished in accordance with state law.
New legislation being considered by the Maryland House of Delegates would allow police to run checks of the state’s gun registry against its criminal database at least twice a year at a cost of $300,000 dollars to create the new system.
“State Police estimate that if they linked the databases, they would find 10 percent of registered gun owners — about 110,000 people — would be disqualified. They estimate a rate of 1 percent each year thereafter,” reports the Associated Press, adding that “seven new full-time troopers to investigate findings from the new database,” would be hired, “with a cost of more than $1 million a year for salaries and equipment.”
In other words, more armed police would be needed to conduct dangerous door to door gun confiscations of the thousands of people that would be snagged under the new law.
“This smacks of a police state mentality,” said Maryland resident Ronald Smith in written testimony before a hearing on Tuesday.
While the law is ostensibly aimed at disarming criminals, we have seen a steady expansion of reasons that are being applied to bar Americans from owning firearms. The law also creates a chilling effect on the second amendment by implying that gun owners are all guilty until proven innocent.
Last year we reported on how US Navy Veteran David A Schmecker had his guns confiscated by police after a forced “psychiatric evaluation” despite him having no criminal or psychiatric history.
In August 2012, we reported on how a veteran in Ohio had his guns taken because he was adjudged to be mentally incompetent, despite the fact that his previous VA psychiatric evaluations were all clear, he was not on medication, and he had no criminal record.
In February 2012, David Sarti, one of the stars of National Geographic’s Doomsday Preppers show, visited his doctor complaining of chest pains, only to have the doctor later commit him to a psychiatric ward and alert authorities, before Sarti was declared “mentally defective” and put on an FBI list that stripped him of his second amendment rights.
Maryland’s preparations for gun confiscation arrive on the back of a similar showdown in Connecticut, where a vast majority of residents refused to register their assault rifles and high capacity magazines in accordance with a new law that took effect on January 1. Gun groups are now challenging authorities to either proceed with mass gun confiscation or repeal the law in full.
Maryland is another state that will violate the 2nd amendment.
If guns are outlawed omly outlaws will have guns. Consider me an outlaw.
there will be a blood bath in Maryland
Their game is to make sneezing a felony its time to stand this is pieetgrab for your constitution yhis effects ameruca not msryland
How many are going to have to get killed before they remember we have the constitutional law the right to bear arms and defend our property!!! Our home and our guns are our property so it will be self defense when you kill the dumb ass that tries to come into your home PERIOD!!!
Bring it!
“Bring it”? HAHAHA! And what? They outlaw guns incrementally.
The 2nd says NOTHING about former felons, etc. but you have no problem with gun bans against *those* people because you aren’t (yet) one of those.
When they finally take your rights, it will be too late for those of us with balls (former felons) to help you. Best to just relax when the state goes in dry.
That is an easy law. felons are not supposed to have guns. why would anyone disagree with that. or at least violent felons. bad checks can be a felon but should you take their guns. probably not.
This would be a good gun control identify violent felons and visit them.