Subject Weapons | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| MD | SB281 | Establishing an exception to the prohibition against carrying a deadly weapon on public school property; making it a misdemeanor to possess or use specified firearm ammunition during the commission of a crime of violence; limiting the authorization f... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 427 |
| MD | HB365 | Establishing for archery hunters in Harford County a 100-yard safety zone within which archery hunting may not take place except under specified circumstances. [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 616 |
| MD | HB854 | Authorizing a person to file a petition for expungement of criminal records if the person was found not criminally responsible under any State or local law that prohibits specified acts; specifying that a petition for expungement based on a finding o... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-16 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 643 |
| MD | SB715 | Authorizing the issuance, to new applicants, of identification cards, moped operators' permits, and drivers' licenses that are not acceptable by federal agencies for specified official purposes; requiring an applicant for an identification card, a mo... [Detail][Text] | 2013-05-02 Approved by the Governor - Chapter 309 |
| MD | HB874 | Altering the date by which the Task Force to Study Access of Individuals with Mental Illness to Regulated Firearms is required to submit its findings and recommendations to December 1, 2013; and extending to June 30, 2014, the termination date of the... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-08 |
| MD | SB479 | Authorizing a person to file a petition for expungement of criminal records if the person was found not criminally responsible under any State or local law that prohibits specified acts; specifying that a petition for expungement based on a finding o... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-06 |
| MD | HB107 | Reducing to 10 rounds the maximum capacity for ammunition of a detachable magazine for a firearm that can be manufactured, sold, offered for sale, purchased, received, or transferred; and reducing to 10 rounds the maximum capacity for ammunition of a... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-05 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB375 | Requiring the Secretary of State Police or the Secretary's designee to disapprove an application for a State-regulated firearms dealer's license if the Secretary or designee determines that the applicant intends a person who is not eligible to be iss... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-05 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB397 | Creating an exception to the prohibition against carrying a deadly weapon on public school property for a person who holds a handgun permit or is certified under the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act to carry a concealed firearm. [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-05 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn |
| MD | HB477 | Defining "convicted of a crime of violence" and "convicted of a disqualifying crime" to include probation before judgment for crimes of violence for the purpose of specified provisions of law that limit a person's right to possess a firearm or obtain... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-05 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB490 | Making it a misdemeanor to possess or use specified firearm ammunition during and in relation to the commission of a crime; and establishing penalties. [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-05 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB643 | Providing an exemption from specified requirements to complete a specified firearms training course if an individual is a retired law enforcement officer of a unit of the federal government, the State, or any local law enforcement agency in the State... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-05 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB1191 | Designating specified firearms as assault weapons; prohibiting with specified exceptions a person from transporting an assault weapon into the State or possessing, selling, offering to sell, transferring, purchasing, or receiving an assault weapon; r... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-05 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB1092 | Requiring specified persons who sell or transfer firearms to notify specified purchasers or recipients at the time of purchase or transfer that the purchaser or recipient is required to report a lost or stolen firearm to a local law enforcement agenc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-05 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB1077 | Requiring a dealer or any other person who sells or transfers a regulated firearm to notify the purchaser or recipient at the time of purchase or transfer that the purchaser or recipient is required to report a lost or stolen regulated firearm to the... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-05 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB989 | Providing that prohibitions relating to detachable magazines with a specified ammunition capacity do not apply to bank security guards and armored car service guards under specified circumstances. [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-05 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB961 | Prohibiting public inspection of the records of specified regulated firearm dealers, owners, and permit holders; authorizing the individual named in the record and the individual's attorney to view specified records; and providing that the Act does n... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-05 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn |
| MD | HB90 | Requiring a custodian to deny inspection of a record of a specified handgun permit and a specified handgun permit application; and requiring a custodian to permit inspection of specified records by the handgun permit holder or handgun permit applican... [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-04 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn |
| MD | SB646 | Authorizing the Secretary of State Police to accept a background check from an armored car company in place of a criminal history records check performed by the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services under specified circumstances. [Detail][Text] | 2013-04-02 |
| MD | SB619 | Altering the funding sources for and clarifying the uses of the State Wildlife and Management Protection Fund; clarifying that a 3-day nonresident hunting license does not authorize bear hunting; increasing the fees for specified hunting licenses; re... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-28 |
| MD | SB932 | Prohibiting a person from carrying a deadly weapon on the property of an institution of higher education; providing specified exceptions to the prohibition; establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-28 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings |
| MD | SB420 | Making it a misdemeanor to possess or use specified firearm ammunition during and in relation to the commission of a crime; and establishing penalties. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-27 |
| MD | SB590 | Including specified additional information on a specified report required of a law enforcement agency that maintains a SWAT team; extending to the end of June 30, 2017 a specified termination provision; etc. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-27 |
| MD | HB719 | Adding an additional venue in which a person may be prosecuted for a false statement concerning a destructive device or toxic material. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-27 |
| MD | HB1421 | Specifying that a license to carry a regulated firearm, including a concealed regulated firearm, issued to an individual by Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, or West Virginia is valid in Maryland. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-26 |
| MD | HB35 | Modifying an exception to the prohibition against wearing, carrying, or transporting handguns that limits the exception to a specified person on active assignment engaged in law enforcement. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-23 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1355 | Increasing a specified firearm application fee; reducing the number of consecutive days that an applicant may not exceed in a medical institution for treatment of a mental disorder without a specified certification from a licensed mental health physi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-23 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1464 | Prohibiting a person from carrying a deadly weapon on the property of an institution of higher education; providing specified exceptions to the prohibition; establishing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-22 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | HB394 | Authorizing a principal of a primary or secondary school to designate one or more safety officers and make one or more electronic control devices available for use by trained safety officers in the school; requiring the Maryland Police and Correction... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-21 Unfavorable Report by Ways and Means |
| MD | SB865 | Providing that an inmate who is serving a sentence in a State or local correctional facility for a second or subsequent conviction of a specified firearm related crime is not entitled to a specified deduction from the inmate's term of confinement; et... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 |
| MD | HB1225 | Prohibiting a person, while in or having just exited a motor vehicle, from recklessly discharging a firearm at or toward another motor vehicle or building or at or toward another person or an occupied building or motor vehicle; and requiring the forf... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | SB871 | Authorizing that a specified crime involving circulating or transmitting a false statement or rumor about the location of a destructive device or toxic material be prosecuted in the county in which the destructive device or toxic material was alleged... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 |
| MD | SB1058 | Prohibiting a principal from suspending or expelling a student who brings to school or possesses on school property a picture of a gun, a computer image of a gun, a facsimile of a gun, or any other object that resembles a gun but serves another purpo... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-20 |
| MD | HB671 | Establishing for archery hunters in Montgomery County a safety zone of 50 yards within which archery hunting may not take place except under specified circumstances. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-19 |
| MD | SB531 | Prohibiting a person from storing or leaving a loaded or unloaded firearm in a location where specified individuals could gain access to the firearm; and altering the penalty for a violation of the Act. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn |
| MD | SB532 | Altering the penalty for storing or leaving a loaded firearm in a location where the person knew or should have known that an unsupervised child would gain access to the firearm. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn |
| MD | HB738 | Excluding from the jurisdiction of the juvenile court specified juvenile offenders who violate a specified prohibition on making a false statement about a destructive device or toxic material. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-18 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary |
| MD | SB248 | Prohibiting a person from breaking and entering the dwelling of another and committing a violent crime against a victim who is a lawful occupant of the dwelling; prohibiting a person from employing or displaying a dangerous weapon during the commissi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 |
| MD | HB424 | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an inmate who is serving a sentence for a specified crime of violence involving a firearm in a State or local correctional facility; eliminating parole eligibility for... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 |
| MD | HB940 | Prohibiting a person from breaking and entering the dwelling of another and committing a violent crime against a victim who is a lawful occupant of the dwelling; prohibiting a person from employing or displaying a dangerous weapon during the commissi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 |
| MD | HB1178 | Including specified additional information on a specified report required of a law enforcement agency that maintains a SWAT team; and repealing a specified termination provision. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 |
| MD | HB1192 | Prohibiting the earning of diminution credits to reduce the term of confinement of an inmate committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Correction or sentenced to a term of imprisonment in a local correctional facility who is serving a sentence ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 |
| MD | HB1133 | Prohibiting a person from possessing a firearm if the person has been convicted of a felony or, under specified circumstances, suffers from a mental disorder or has been confined to a specified facility for a specified period of time; establishing a ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations Withdrawn |
| MD | HB1057 | Providing that an inmate who is serving a sentence in a State or local correctional facility for a second or subsequent conviction of a specified firearm related crime is not entitled to good conduct credits. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-12 |
| MD | SB382 | Requiring that a petition for emergency evaluation of a specified individual include, under specified circumstances, a statement of whether the individual has possession of or access to firearms; authorizing a court, under specified circumstances, to... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-11 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn |
| MD | HB366 | Establishing for archery hunters a 50-yard safety zone within which archery hunting may not take place except under specified circumstances. [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-11 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
| MD | SB539 | Reducing to 10 rounds the maximum capacity for ammunition of a detachable magazine for a firearm that can be manufactured, sold, offered for sale, purchased, received, or transferred; and reducing to 10 rounds the maximum capacity for ammunition of a... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-11 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn |
| MD | HB545 | Establishing a Task Force to Study the Impact of Assault Weapons; providing for the membership, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving compensation, but authorizing the reimbursement of specified ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-11 Unfavorable Report by Judiciary Withdrawn |
| MD | SB623 | Designating specified firearms as assault weapons; prohibiting with specified exceptions a person from transporting an assault weapon into the State or possessing, selling, offering to sell, transferring, purchasing, or receiving an assault weapon; r... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-11 Unfavorable Report by Judicial Proceedings Withdrawn |
| MD | HB812 | Exempting veterans and persons serving on active duty in the armed forces of the United States from any practical or field components of the course of instruction in competency and safety in the handling of firearms; and requiring the Department of N... [Detail][Text] | 2013-03-11 Unfavorable Report by Environmental Matters |
