aray
03-06-2013, 10:18 PM
FYI here is my testimony in front of the MD House of Delegates Judiciary Committee earlier this week. On the same video is my daughter, Victoria, who is 14. Considering it was 3 AM when she got to testify I thought she did pretty well, even though she sorta fumbled on point #2. (Like me, she had been up about 20 hours by that point and she's only 14.)
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I got there at 8 AM. Testimony started with the expert panels at noon. I was #47 to testify from the general public and did so at about 6:30 PM. My daughter arrived after school and dinner. She was #1321 and as stated didn't get to speak until 3 AM. Only 32 people from the other side signed up to support the gun grabbing bills.
We were only given 1 minute to speak which is why you hear the bells ringing to tell us to stop, although the Chair did allow us to finish our thoughts.
FYI here's a more complete version of my daughter's testimony which she gave at an outside 2A rally last month in Annapolis when the Senate took up the same bills:
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These bills are really bad. Greatly expands the definition of assault weapons which are then banned. Magazine capacity set down to 10 max. Makes ammo illegal for anyone under 21 - even a single shotgun shell or single .22 cal. bullet. Even bans guns used in the Olympics. Mandatory hundreds of thousands of dollars of liability insurance required for gun owners. Fingerprinting to buy a gun and expensive fees we've estimated to be up to $385 for gun purchase. Training required to get a firearm owners' card including demonstration of proficiency, but makes rental (to learn proficiency) illegal before you get your firearm owners' card (catch 22 for new gun owners). Gun registration for current firearms already owned. Members of the military who are deployed overseas and can't get back to Maryland in time to register their guns will be criminals upon their return. (I'm not kidding; the chief sponsor of the governor's bill in the Senate rose in opposition to an amendment to fix that part with an exemption for overseas military members.) Penalties for very minor technical violations of guns laws set at 3 years in prison which would permanently make you a "prohibited person" from ever owning a gun according to federal laws even if you leave the state later. And so on.
This is draconian stuff. Our current governor (O'Malley) may be your future president. It's clear to us all that he's already running in 2016.
He's trying to out Bloomberg Bloomberg, and Cuomo in New York.
Beware.
RJ_KmWN0VdM
I got there at 8 AM. Testimony started with the expert panels at noon. I was #47 to testify from the general public and did so at about 6:30 PM. My daughter arrived after school and dinner. She was #1321 and as stated didn't get to speak until 3 AM. Only 32 people from the other side signed up to support the gun grabbing bills.
We were only given 1 minute to speak which is why you hear the bells ringing to tell us to stop, although the Chair did allow us to finish our thoughts.
FYI here's a more complete version of my daughter's testimony which she gave at an outside 2A rally last month in Annapolis when the Senate took up the same bills:
tpfrs0zQcYs
These bills are really bad. Greatly expands the definition of assault weapons which are then banned. Magazine capacity set down to 10 max. Makes ammo illegal for anyone under 21 - even a single shotgun shell or single .22 cal. bullet. Even bans guns used in the Olympics. Mandatory hundreds of thousands of dollars of liability insurance required for gun owners. Fingerprinting to buy a gun and expensive fees we've estimated to be up to $385 for gun purchase. Training required to get a firearm owners' card including demonstration of proficiency, but makes rental (to learn proficiency) illegal before you get your firearm owners' card (catch 22 for new gun owners). Gun registration for current firearms already owned. Members of the military who are deployed overseas and can't get back to Maryland in time to register their guns will be criminals upon their return. (I'm not kidding; the chief sponsor of the governor's bill in the Senate rose in opposition to an amendment to fix that part with an exemption for overseas military members.) Penalties for very minor technical violations of guns laws set at 3 years in prison which would permanently make you a "prohibited person" from ever owning a gun according to federal laws even if you leave the state later. And so on.
This is draconian stuff. Our current governor (O'Malley) may be your future president. It's clear to us all that he's already running in 2016.
He's trying to out Bloomberg Bloomberg, and Cuomo in New York.
Beware.