Last week Mom and I ate dinner at a place overlooking Lake Travis. Nice place, nice weather, and we sat out on the patio to dine al fresco. For some reason, it was pretty easy to hear conversations at other tables.
For example, the table behind me had an animated discussion over CCW permitting, and one of the people made the remark that he'd heard that Georgia doesn't require any training or minimum shooting score or anything!!!eleventy!
Yup. Get fingerprinted, fill out the form, pay your $50 (or so) to the Probate Judge, and your Weapons Carry Permit shows up in the mail in a few weeks. No fuss at all. It's such little fuss, it seems, that South Carolina gets their Massachusetts on and says it's not safe or something, and so doesn't recognize Georgia WCPs.
I actually think that you could improve things by making the whole process free - after all, this is an enumerated Constitutional right, and so if the Powers That Be say that the State has a legitimate interest in fingerprinting, then the State should pay for it. But I digress.
T-Bolt is describing how to go about getting a permit in Maryland. The whole "explain why you want a permit" thing strikes me as asking for and answer like "For the same reason I want a blog, now shut up and give me the stinking permit." And character references? How about doing a criminal background check and if I'm clean that's all the reference you need?
I wonder what the process is of changing a State Motto? The "Free State" is better described as The "Tell us why you think you should be free State".
Agreed.
ReplyDeleteAlso agree about Lake Travis being beautiful. When I was a little boy, I had an Uncle that had a cabin perched on a hillside overlooking the lake. Lots of good memories there.
Maryland would be the place where the worst case socialism is tried out and the current governor wants to be 'Bam's running mate. And where my daughter, who has been threatened repeatedly because of her job, knows it's hopeless to even try for a CC permit.
ReplyDeleteI still think the second amendment is incorporated against the states, counties, cities, and ward captains.
ReplyDeleteIf the NRA had any backbone they would be suing for "constitutional freedom" instead of begging for scraps.
The ACLU can get Santa thrown off the court house lawn based on an imaginary "wall of separation", the NRA can't get 11 round magazines into several states or the District of Columbia based on the words a 5th grader can understand.
The Iguana?
ReplyDeleteHow is the water level? Is it moving more towards a lake and less like a river?