Delegate candidate stands on the right to keep and bear arms.

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Want to find how the candidates in Maryland for Delegate stand on the right to keep and bear arms?

They were asked these four questions.

1. ___ Agree ___ Disagree
I recognize that law-abiding Maryland residents have the individual right to keep and bear arms and I will defend that right as required by my oath of office to defend the Constitutions of Maryland and the United States.

2. ___ Agree ___ Disagree
Research shows that violent crime decreases when law-abiding citizens are permitted to carry concealed firearms at their discretion (see http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcdgcon.html ).
So, I will support revisions to Maryland's code to require concealed handgun licenses be issued to law-abiding applicants and to recognize permits issued by other states.

3. ___ Agree ___ Disagree
Research announced by the Attorney General of California (see his press release at
http://www.ag.ca.gov/newsalerts/2003/03-013.htm )
concluded "today's technology is not yet adequate to handle the volume associated with adding all new guns to the [ballistic fingerprint] database and still provide useful information for investigators." Experience in Maryland and New York confirm that ballistic fingerprinting technology applied to shell casings from new handguns is not useful as a crime solving technology. So, I will support revisions to Maryland's code to repeal requiring that shell casings be supplied for every new handgun sold in Maryland.

4. ___ Agree ___ Disagree
Not one Maryland police officer has been shot and killed with any rifle for more than 25 years (reference
http://www.mcrkba.org/LEOsKIA.pdf )
and in the most recent FBI report for 2004 only two people were murdered in Maryland using rifles (reference Table 20 in
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/offen...ble_20-22.html ).
Based on these facts and the low frequency that any kind of rifle is used in crime, I will oppose efforts to ban semi-automatic rifles (rifles that fire only once for each squeeze of the trigger) in Maryland.

Go here http://www.mcrkba.org/DelContest06.html

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