The Good People Of Maryland Truly Hate Those Evil Assault Weapons...

senate bill 494

1 AN ACT concerning

2 Firearms - Assault Weapons - Ban

3 FOR the purpose of making it a misdemeanor to transport an assault weapon into the
4 State or to possess, sell, offer to sell, transfer, purchase, or receive an assault
5 weapon; providing that certain persons and acts are not covered by certain
6 assault weapons provisions; providing certain exceptions to certain crimes;
7 authorizing a law enforcement unit to seize and dispose of assault weapons
8 under certain circumstances; making it a misdemeanor to use an assault
9 weapon or a certain magazine in the commission of a felony or crime of violence;
10 providing certain penalties; defining certain terms; and generally relating to
11 assault weapons.

But what precisely IS an Assault Weapon?

"...a firearm that is any of the following specific assault weapons or
their copies, regardless of which company produced and manufactured that assault."

Ah yes. When in doubt use the word to describe itself. Marylanders enjoy living in a state that doesn't merely disregard the 2nd Amendment, but the entire concept that the Founding Fathers went to war for. Standing armies that are permitted to possess weapons unavailable to the people were considered an unacceptable evil. Of course they never envisioned modern weapons systems, but the reason "assault weapons" are feared is not because law-abiding folks would use them to harm other law-abiding folks. A new category of citizen was created by the leftwing establishment. A type of citizen that will vote to elect only them. The beasts who would kill us, sheltered by their enablers.

Of course we shouldn't be capable of removing them en masse. Who'd be left to vote Democratic? Frightened seniors and hairy-palmed wankers living in their parents basement?