Maryland Shall Issue

Check out this open house our friends over at the AGC are putting on!

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RANGE BADGE Membership SALE -- Sat. June 13th ONLY :

New Members - $125
Renewing Members - $225

!!! Purchase ONLINE or IN-PERSON for DISCOUNTED PRICE !!!!

ONE DAY ONLY

Purchase Online Here:
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The Supreme Court of Maryland issued its decision today in our challenge to the Montgomery County ordinance that basically banned carry by permit holders through out the County. On that issue we completely prevailed and the County lost. Specifically the Court held that the County's ban "is not a local law because of its application to holders of State-issued wear-and-carry permits traveling on public highways who cross within 100 yards of a place of public assembly." That means that permit holders may carry in Montgomery County without regard to the County's ordinance as long as they remain in compliance with State law. By any measure, we count that as a huge WIN! The whole point of the County's ordinance was to make it impossible for permit holders to carry in the County after the decision by the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision in NYSRPA v. Bruen. On that point, the County lost completely. The Maryland Supreme Court issued other rulings as well, holding that County's regulation of so-called "ghost guns" was preempted by State law "to the extent it includes fi****ms that have been serialized in compliance with federal and State law." That means that persons may transport personally made fi****ms to FFLs and FFLs in the County may serialize personally made frames and receivers in accordance with State law. The Court also struck down as preempted a section of the County's ordinance which banned a "broad swath of otherwise lawful (and constitutionally protected) conduct by adults merely because it occurs in the presence of a minor, without any apparent connection to whether that activity might result in minors gaining unsupervised access to those fi****ms." The lesson to County residents and others: get a carry permit and carry in accordance with State law.