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[BC38]

My younger brother is a now-retired Maryland State Trooper, who never goes anywhere without a gun. He got married almost 30 years ago, at a beautiful little church in a very rural area...and had his Model 60 in an ankle holster when he took his vows. When I remarked about that, his answer was that it's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it...

Pretty much sums up my philosophy of carrying - and of life in general...

 

[pittpa]

My younger brother is a now-retired Maryland State Trooper, who never goes anywhere without a gun. He got married almost 30 years ago, at a beautiful little church in a very rural area...and had his Model 60 in an ankle holster when he took his vows. When I remarked about that, his answer was that it's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it...

My sister-in-law knows I have a carry permit. She said to me one night on The way into a restaurant, you wouldn't carry to dinner at a restaurant would you? I told her no I just carry when I think I might need it. She accepted that without blinking. I was carrying at the time and she certainly didn't need to know that.
Her husband has a carry permit too and he only carries when he thinks he might need it such as going to some part of town he deems less than good.


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[BC38]

My sister-in-law knows I have a carry permit. She said to me one night on The way into a restaurant, you wouldn't carry to dinner at a restaurant would you? I told her no I just carry when I think I might need it. She accepted that without blinking. I was carrying at the time and she certainly didn't need to know that.
Her husband has a carry permit too and he only carries when he thinks he might need it such as going to some part of town he deems less than good.


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Must be nice to possess that level of clairvoyance. How's he do at picking stocks?

 

[Skeet 028]

To be fair...it wasn't the Maryland State Police who were keeping folks from getting carry permits; it was our Governors and the members of our General Assembly who refused to drop the "good and substantial reason" language from the permit process.

The recent SCOTUS decision has resulted in a deluge of applications for carry permits here. There is a training requirement, which includes both classroom and range time, as well as fingerprinting and a background check, and the total cost can be as much as $400 or more.

400 bucks!! Gonna keep the poor folks from obtaining a carry license. That is a serious cost to exercise a constitutional right..As far as the state police or politicians not wanting us to carry... I have somewhere a letter from the Supt MSP to the Speaker of the Md house to the effect that the State police didn't issue permits except in extreme cases. But there were many connected people that had permits.

Have they set up renewal periods and costs to renew?? Get the permit though. Don't trust the state of Md