"The Maryland Senate voted unanimously yesterday to override Gov. Martin O'Malley's veto of a bill that would let police departments dispose of their guns by selling them to a manufacturer.
The bill was approved unanimously this year in both the Senate and the House of Delegates. No one testified against it during a Senate committee hearing. State law requires police departments to either destroy the guns or sell them only to another police agency or an active or retired officer.
O'Malley stated that "police weapons should not be potentially made available outside of the law enforcement community." The House of Delegates would need to get a three-fifths' vote for the General Assembly to override the veto."
Few years back I acquired a damned fine Glock that was originally issued to a New Mexican police department. Plenty of holster wear but you'd swear that the barrel was brand new. Not a sign of peening to be found and the presumption was...carried a lot, shot a little.
Win-win. Departments make a few bucks trading in their "older" weapons, and we get a break when purchasing guns we know damned well haven't been shot-out. Besides; Glock will fix anything, anytime, regardless of who the original purchaser happened to be.
Free. They won't re-black the thing but if something is broken...I'm talking even a weak magazine spring...you get it back with a total makeover. Fella's in Smryna have free reign to keep the customer satisfied and they do so in spades.
Sorry for the unabashed commercial break for Glock but it was easier to venture off on a tangent rather than elevate the old blood pressure with Governor Un Manly's fear that .40 caliber semi-auto's will find their way into the hands of mere civilians.
Think of the children. The children.
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