SMST's Hunting Handgun Proposal Makes It To The BOC

January 7, 2011 - La Plata, Maryland

The Hunting Handgun proposal that SMST has put forth in an effort to add the regulations was passed on to the Charles County Commissioners last night at their Preliminary 2011 Legislative Public Hearing meeting last night in La Plata.

Correspondence was submitted to the BOC for consideration to add an allowance of using Modern Handguns of suitable calibers for use as a Hunting specific weapon for Deer hunting in the county. Charles County, as well as, all of those counties in the Maryland DNR specified "Region B" does not currently allow for the use of modern hand guns to be used for Deer hunting, which is greatly outdated regulation, due to the knowledge that modern muzzleloading handguns and rifles are allowed, but modern handguns that meet or exceed the muzzleloading laws has yet to be added as a legal hunting firearm for Deer in this county.

At this time the proposal documents have been passed to the county commissioners and future updates of the BOC decisions on this proposal are forthcoming. All we can do is ask the hunting community in Charles County to contact the BOC and send letters and emails explaining why you feel this proposal is important to you as a hunter.

All we can do now is wait. Hopefully the Charles County Commissioners will lay aside their anti-gun issues and pass this on to the next level of government, so, that Charles Counties hunters will have another firearms resource for their hunting interests.