NP>The NRA has very much misrepresented things about certain pending laws.
NP>Recently in Arkansas the NRA was crowing about the wonders and benefits
NP>of a gun control law.  Getting members to call up their elected
NP>officials and tell them how much they liked it.  Now, where you could
NP>before simply carry a weapon concealed, thanks in large part to the NRA
NP>you have to get a permit first.  And there's no guarantee you'll get
NP>that permit.  When the NRA promotes bills that will curtail gun
NP>ownership that is very active chipping away at the 2nd amendment.
NP>  (As a side note to this I found it very interesting that the NRA
NP>   message poster in the RIME net quit posting immediately after an
NP>   Arkansas citizen pointed out how less then thrilled he was about
NP>   the NRA's actions in his state, and exactly why.)
NO sir YOU ARE DEAD WRONG  your weapon had to be in plain sight and
holstered with a snap over the trigger requiring more than two moves
to access the weapon and that law still stands. If your weapon is
concealed you need a permit. I live here and I carry without a permit
in my vehicle all the time. you must be on a journey and that is leaving
the vacinity of your neighborhood for a distance of thirty miles or more.
however we are working on Vermont style carry laws at this moment
did you catch the post with the Arkansas State Constitution?
I have all fifty however some may need an update. here is yours
                           CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND
                                     1867
                            DECLARATION OF RIGHTS
          We the people of the State of Maryland, grateful to Almighty
          God for our civil and religious liberty, and taking into our
          serious consideration the best means of establishing a  good
          Constitution in this State for the sure foundation and  more
          permanent security thereof, declare:
Art. 1.   That all government of right originates from the people,  is
          founded in compact only, and instituted solely for the  good
          of the whole; and they  have, at all times, the  inalienable
          right to alter, reform  or abolish their Form  of Government
          in such manner as they may deem expedient.
Art. 2.   The Constitution of the United States, and the laws made, or
          which shall be made, in pursuance thereof, and all  Treaties
          made, or  which shall  be made,  under the  authority of the
          United States,  are, and  shall be  the Supreme  Law of  the
          State; and the Judges of  this State, and all the  People of
          this State, are, and shall be bound thereby; anything in the
          Constitution  or  Law   of  this  State   to  the   contrary
          notwithstanding.
Art. 3.   The powers not delegated to the United States by the Consti-
          tution thereof, nor prohibited by it to the States, are  re-
          served to the States respectively, or to the people thereof.
Art. 4.   That the People of  this  State have the  sole and exclusive
          right  of  regulating  the  internal  government  and police
          thereof, as a free, sovereign and independent State.
Art. 5.   That the inhabitants of Maryland are entitled to the  Common
          Law of  England, and  the trial  by Jury,  according to  the
          course  of  that  Law,  and  to  the  benefit of such of the
          English  statutes  as  existed  on  the  Fourth day of July,
          seventeen hundred and seventy-six; and which, by experience,
          have been found applicable to their local and other  circum-
          stances, and have been introduced, used and practiced by the
          Courts of Law or Equity; and also of all Acts of Assembly in
          force on the first day of June, eighteen hundred and  sixty-
          seven; except such as may have since expired, or may be  in-
          consistent with  the provisions  of this  Constitution; sub-
          ject, nevertheless,  to the  revision of,  and amendment  or
          repeal by, the  Legislature of this  State.  And  the Inhab-
          itants of Maryland are also entitled to all property derived
          to them from,  or under the  Charter granted by  His Majesty
          Charles the First to Caecilius Calvert, Baron of Baltimore.
Art. 6.   That all  persons vested  with the Legislative or  Executive
          powers of Government are the Trustees of the Public, and, as
          such, accountable  for their  conduct:   Wherefore, whenever
          the ends  of Government  are perverted,  and public  liberty
          manifestly endangered,  and all  other means  of redress are
          ineffectual, the People may,  and of right ought,  to reform
          the  old,  or  establish  a  new Government; the doctrine of
          nonresistance  against  arbitrary  power  and  oppression is
          absurd, slavish and destructive of the good and happiness of
          mankind.
Art. 7.   That the right of the People to participate in the  Legisla-
          ture is the best security  of liberty and the foundation  of
          all free Government; for this purpose, elections ought to be
          free and frequent; and  every white male citizen  having the
          qualifications prescribed by the Constitution, ought to have
          the right of suffrage.
Art. 8.   That the Legislative, Executive and Judicial powers of  Gov-
          ernment ought to be forever separate and distinct from  each
          other; and no person exercising the functions of one of said
          Departments  shall  assume  or  discharge  the duties of any
          other.
Art. 9.   That no power  of suspending Laws or the execution of  Laws,
          unless  by,  or  derived  from  the Legislature, ought to be
          exercised, or allowed.
Art. 10.  That freedom of  speech  and debate,  or proceedings in  the
          Legislature, ought to be exercised, or allowed.
Art. 11.  That Annapolis be  the place of meeting of the  Legislature;
          and the Legislature ought not to be convened, or held at any
          other place but from evident necessity.
Art. 12.  That for redress of grievances, and for amending,  strength-
          ening and preserving the  Laws, the Legislature ought  to be
          frequently convened.
Art. 13.  That every man hath a right to petition the Legislature  for
          the redress of grievances in a peaceable and orderly manner.
Art. 14.  That no aid, charge, tax, burthen or fees ought to be  rated
          or levied, under  any pretense, without  the consent of  the
          Legislature.
Art. 15.  That  the  levying  of  taxes  by  the  poll is grievous and
          oppressive and  ought to  be prohibited;  that paupers ought
          not to be assessed for  the support of government; that  the
          General Assembly  shall, by  uniform rules,  provide for the
          separate assessment, classification and subclassification of
          land, improvements on land and personal property, as it  may
          deem proper; and all taxes thereafter provided to be  levied
          by the State  for the support  of the general  State Govern-
          ment, and by the Counties  and by the City of  Baltimore for
          their  respective  purposes,  shall  be  uniform within each
          class or subclass of land, improvements on land and personal
          property which the respective taxing powers may have direct-
          ed to  be subjected  to the  tax levy;  yet fines, duties or
          taxes may  properly and  justly be  imposed, or  laid with a
          political view for  the good government  and benefit of  the
          community. (Amended 1915 and 1960)
Art. 16.  That sanguinary  Laws  ought to be  avoided as far  as it is
          consistent  with  the  safety  of  the  State; and no Law to
          inflict cruel and  unusual pains and  penalties ought to  be
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