As a long-time Maryland resident I have become used to dealing with the idiotic and senseless profusion of libertard ideology. After all, no one has ever called Maryland a conservative state. In fact, I can only remember one Republican Governor of the state in my entire lifetime (and I am no spring chicken). My father can only remember one other Republican Governor (yes, the infamous Spiro Agnew of Nixon fame).

Earlier this year, our idiotic extreme left-wing governor really made a push for gun control. Martin O’Malley used every trick in the book, including all sorts of falsehoods and half-truths about how much safer we will be with ‘tough’ and ‘sensible’ new gun control legislation in our state. True to his word of making gun control a central part of his plan for the 2013 legislative session, O’Malley and his band of merry men were indeed able to get a series of new restrictive gun control regulations passed.

Sadly, all of these new rules and regulations will go into effect beginning October 1st. For those of you who are lucky enough to NOT be affected by this, you probably do not know exactly how much our 2nd Amendment rights are about to trampled upon. For starters, all prospective handgun buyers in the Old Line State will required to submit their fingerprints to a state managed database. So, now our wonderful government officials will know exactly who owns guns…making it much easier to target their potential political opponents, as well. You will also be required to complete a mandatory safety course (this is the only part of the new rules that seems even somewhat palatable to me), plus you will need to obtain a license.

Now, Maryland is about to become the 5th state in the country to actually track lawful gun owners. But these rules go even further. They do not allow residents to legally purchase ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. Plus, the sale of AR-15’s and more than 40 other so-called ‘assault’ weapons will be banned as well.

Interestingly, the Libertards in the state are a bit outraged, since we are seeing a huge number of people rushing to buy their guns and ammunition ahead of that October 1st date. In fact, The Baltimore Sun has reported that this last minute rush to buy up all the guns possible before the bans take effect have resulted in gun sales of more than 1,000 per day. This rate is outpacing the sales figures from the same period last year by almost a 7 to 1 rate. According to those interviewed for the story, residents as well as gun store owners are buying basically everything that is about to be banned.

Here is the rub that really irritates the Libertards who backed all of these laws. The demand has been so heavy recently that it has simply overwhelmed the state’s background check system. This is not really big news, since this has been the situation for several months, ever since the law actually passed the State House in Annapolis. Despite the wonderful governor pledging the full resources of the state to help work through the backlog of these checks (more than 102,000 applications have been filed this year, which is more than twice the number in all of 2011), not much actual progress has been made. The response has been that about half of the 314 Maryland gun dealers are now just simply releasing the weapons to their buyers without waiting for the results of the background check.

The really funny thing is that this is all legal. Gun shops and dealers in Maryland are only legally required to hold a purchased gun for 7 days before the can be released…and this is exactly what they are doing.

Find out more about some of the intricacies and restrictions of this law by viewing the video below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM9hZXBmA5g

What do you think about all this? Did the government of Maryland go too far? How do you feel about have a state gun ownership registry, complete with a fingerprint database? Could this be a sign of things to come for Obama to begin pushing on a national level?