{"id":54660,"date":"2020-05-08T15:01:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T20:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=54660"},"modified":"2020-05-08T15:01:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T20:01:34","slug":"54660","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=54660","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"headline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/05\/07\/maryland-governor-vetoes-ban-on-private-rifle-shotgun-sales\/\">Maryland Governor Vetoes Ban on Private Rifle, Shotgun Sales<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) vetoed legislation Thursday that would have banned the private sale of rifles and shotguns throughout the state&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">Together, SB 208 and HB 4 would have criminalized not only sales, but also actions \u201csuch as loans and gifts between friends, neighbors, or fellow hunters.\u201dThe two bills would have also resulted in a scenario in which law-abiding long gun owners would have had to pay a fee to the state \u2014 to cover the cost of paperwork \u2014 in order to sell a gun to a neighbor or a lifelong friend.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/governor.maryland.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Crime-Bills-Veto.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\">released<\/a>\u00a0a statement with his veto wherein he stressed that he had shown openness to signing legislation that promised to help curtail the burgeoning violence in Baltimore and specifically called for the passage of Violent Firearm Offenders Act of 2020, the Witness Intimidation Prevention Act, and the Judicial Transparency Act.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the Senate acted on his request, but the House did not. Instead, an\u00a0<em>ad hoc<\/em>\u00a0approach to crime was taken, and that approach included the gun controls contained in SB 208 and HB 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland Governor Vetoes Ban on Private Rifle, Shotgun Sales Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) vetoed legislation Thursday that would have banned the private sale of rifles and shotguns throughout the state&#8230;&#8230;.. Together, SB 208 and HB 4 would have criminalized not only sales, but also actions \u201csuch as loans and gifts between friends, neighbors, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=54660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54661,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54660\/revisions\/54661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}