over all a good day ...
I was disapointed in the lower turn out this year. Seemed the last couple of years there was 4 times the number of pro-gun people in attendance. We outnumbered the gun-control crowd 10 to 1, but we need MORE PEOPLE BEING ACTIVE IN THIS STUFF ... letters, attending hearings, phone calls, emails, etc. Or there may no longer be a need for a Maryland section on AR-15.com.
also a little disapointed in the decorum ... the old under the fake cough "bullshit" thing got old. And things only got loud a couple of times; over all it wasn't very bad and was just background chatter.
There were positives... as they did last year, the MSP testified against the ballistic fingerprinting. They also testified against the AWB... which I don't recall that they did last year... IIRC they had no stance last year (but my memory sucks and it's been a whole year).
I feel were in good shape on the AWB ... 25 or so less co-sponsors than last year, the MSP against the BAN, and nothing but rhetoric from the antis... we really put them in their place on the "sporting uses" of ARs, etc... even though I thought we spent too much time on the "sporting use" issue and not the RKBA/self defense issue.
Shall-issue CCW, while still a "shot in the dark" (not an intentional pun!), is in a better position than ever.
Call and/or write your elected officials soon! Also contact those delegates on the House Judiciary Committee!
rvb