Maryland House Democrats introduced a controversial gun safety bill requiring gun owners to forfeit their ability to wear or carry without firearm liability insurance.

Introduced by Del. Terri Hill, D-Howard County, the legislation would prohibit the “wear or carry” of a gun anywhere in the state unless the individual has obtained a liability insurance policy of at least $300,000.

"A person may not wear or carry a firearm unless the person has obtained and it covered by liability insurance issued by an insurer authorized to do business in the State under the Insurance Article to cover claims for property damage, bodily injury, or death arising from an accident resulting from the person’s use or storage of a firearm or up to $300,000 for damages arising from the same incident, in addition to interest and costs,” the proposed Maryland legislation reads.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Like for a 9mm, which doesn’t really hurt that much if any. That’s just 2000 bucks. But for an ak47 which is scary from 5 feet away that’s $34,000 bond in case you accidentally pop it inside a mall parking lot and ruin a car. But for a small cannon you would need at least $1000,000.00 liability because it probably really hurts, and you could accidentally ruin a friendship, his wife’s head, the dog, an entire car tire, 3 rats, a large pizza, a squirrel and the bottom part of a giraffe…all in a single shot. Gotta be careful with cannons out there you know. Plus you can’t really carry those, you just sorta pull them around.