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MD:Gun sales may decline due to new law
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Gun sales may decline due to new law
By Joce Sterman
HANCOCK, MD DECEMBER 27 - Gun store owners in Maryland are worried that a new law, designed to increase hand gun safety, will decrease hand gun sales. A law kicks in on the first of the New Year, requiring all newly manufactured handguns to have internal locks, which can keep them from being fired. Otherwise, they are not allowed to be sold in Maryland.
It is part of the "The Responsible Gun Safety Act," signed by Governor Glendening back in 2000. One gun shop owner said the law rules out about 95 percent of his current stock. He said many suppliers will cut Maryland gun sellers off because they do not want to meet the new safety requirements.
"Within the next year to two, it will definitely hurt our business," stated Lance Hendershot, a gun shop owner.
There is one out for gun sellers; they can install the required locks on the guns they already have in stock.
http://www.nbc25.com/Global/story.asp?S=1063497&nav=0aMJD5fn
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By Joce Sterman
HANCOCK, MD DECEMBER 27 - Gun store owners in Maryland are worried that a new law, designed to increase hand gun safety, will decrease hand gun sales. A law kicks in on the first of the New Year, requiring all newly manufactured handguns to have internal locks, which can keep them from being fired. Otherwise, they are not allowed to be sold in Maryland.
It is part of the "The Responsible Gun Safety Act," signed by Governor Glendening back in 2000. One gun shop owner said the law rules out about 95 percent of his current stock. He said many suppliers will cut Maryland gun sellers off because they do not want to meet the new safety requirements.
"Within the next year to two, it will definitely hurt our business," stated Lance Hendershot, a gun shop owner.
There is one out for gun sellers; they can install the required locks on the guns they already have in stock.
http://www.nbc25.com/Global/story.asp?S=1063497&nav=0aMJD5fn
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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Am not a lawyer just guessing out loud.
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