Firearm Wear and Carry Legislation Debated

The state Senate had a protracted debate Thursday over the practicality of bills to limit the places and circumstances in which gun owners can wear, carry and transport their weapons, and how they can store them.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in June effectively rendering Maryland’s concealed-carry policy unconstitutional, legislators have been working on bills to re-imagine the state’s gun policy.

The Senate has now given preliminary approval to a bill that would alter Maryland’s safe storage gun laws.

Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee Chair Will Smith, a Montgomery County Democrat, sponsored Senate Bill 858 to restructure Maryland’s policy on keeping guns away from minors and from people who aren’t allowed to have firearms. (Excerpt from The Baltimore Sun.)