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Man stops violent criminal, and get arrested in Maryland
Story here. The good guy saw another person waving a gun and shouting threats after pistol-whipping another person in his rage. The good guy, Lloyd Muldrow, subdued and disarmed the offender and held him for police. Muldrow had a handgun, with a Virginia but not a Maryland permit to carry, and police arrested him.
(The article says he was arrested for carrying within 100 feet of a public building. Bruen specifically says that while "sensitive place" limitations may be constitutional, they must be strictly limited and find an analogy in restrictions that were in place at the time of the framing. The Maryland statute, if applied not just to a government building, but to an area of 100 feet around it, and even to persons inside other buildings within that radius, would seem clearly unconstitutional).
Donations for his defense can be sent to his GiveSendGo page.
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One odd thing about this story. The dude is a Marine and self defense instructor, but he was carrying a .22 for self defense?
Now, maybe I could see it if it was a tiny little pocket gun, and I get that .22 is better than harsh language, but it was supposedly a Barretta M9 in .22.
If you're going to carry a full sized gun anyway, why one chambered in a such a diminutive caliber?
Not saying the story isn't true or that something hinky was necessarily going on...it's very likely that the reporter just got the gun type or caliber wrong...it just struck me as odd.
I also have to wonder why Maryland isn't charging him with flat out carrying a concealed weapon without a license. MD doesn't recognize VA permits. Are they afraid of such a case going to SCOTUS and setting a precedent re "full faith and credit" with respect to carry permits?
I'd think they'd be more concerned with their arbitrary rules about "time and place" being thrown out.
My understanding from talking to his lawyer is that he's being charged under a Baltimore city ordinance for carrying too close to a sensitive place which is over broadly defined on multiple levels - both the alleged sensitive place itself and the "nearby areas" concept. But I'm not sure it matters because that same city ordinance says that it doesn't apply if the person carrying has a Maryland CCW permit or at least theoretically, a permit that Maryland respects.
To my knowledge Maryland is one of the states that doesn't honor any other permit including the Virginia permit held by this guy that just stopped a mass public shooting.
I think this is the place to make a stand on reciprocity concepts. It's not often we get somebody who stops a mass public shooter, who has a squeaky clean record and who is unconstitutionally charged with illegal carry.