Standard Mischief

Look, y’all claim to be the 99%, but if you really want to represent me, I’ll have to see a wee bit more “Let the banks fail, lock up the criminal executives that broke numerous laws and recall Barny Frank”, and a whole lot less “General strike on the international socialist world holiday, May Day, in solidarity with our comrades in arms in Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela.”

Just saying.

So now that Maryland lost their court case, and is suddenly a “Shall Issue” state, what does our side (the RKBA, pro-civil rights side) need besides over a thousand law-abiding people sending in their applications ASAP, return receipt?

How about taking someone along for the ride whose employer buys ink by the barrel or power by the megawatt/hour?

Hopefully, after carefully pointing out that there is no resident requirement for a Maryland Carry License, hopefully I’ve done just that. Hopefully. Not saying. Nope.

The only issue I see is it may be quite a boring story:

Week one: got the photos, fingerprints, references, paperwork, and the outrageous fee for exercising a core civil right all together. Mailed it in, return receipt requested.

Week two: Maryland failed in their plea to get a stay

Week three: The bank says my check was cashed

Week four: Nothing

Week five: Nothing

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Week eleven: Nothing, and from my 1000+ other contacts, nothing either. MD state police says “there is a slight backlog”

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Week twenty-six: Nothing. Except that Raymond Woollard (of Woollard v. Sheridan ) finally got his permit renewed. State Police say they are giving preference to renewals.

Week twenty-seven: Nothing.

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Anyone with any ideas for “filler”, let’s hear them.

Oh, and credit for the “no residency requirement” goes to Patrick, who is (unverified) [see comments below] President of Maryland Shall Issue, in a comment left on this thread here.

Just me going all off topic on one of y’alls blogs:

6) It’s called “prepping” and it’s almost socially acceptable now if you at least make a few jokes about a zombie apocalypse, (and it has nothing at all to do with those crazy survivalist wackjob nut-cases, so stop looking at me like that…)

Hi SM,

According to our Advance Auto Parts garage records, your Toyota Camry may be due for its 45,000 mile scheduled service.  Learn More…[snip]

I got news for you guys, the 45k scheduled maintenance was due over a decade ago. Oh, and I distinctly remember unchecking the check-box that says I agree to you sending me spam (doesn’t matter of course, thanks to our congresscritters and the CAN-SPAM act, ordering parts online for quick local pickup just so you can save $10 with a coupon means we’ve established a “business relationship”, and the sleazy corporation can spam me until I beg them to stop.)

Thanks to sneakemail though, I can create a custom disposable email address just for this one transaction and then decide to cut off the email spam spigot after receiving the initial order conformation emails – all  on my terms, not theirs. I can also turn on the email address again if I ever want to initiate another transaction. Took longer to blog about it than do it too.

I don’t know if the average person will grok the user interface without a bit of effort on their part, but I’ve had no issues. There’s a free one month trial though, so you risk nothing. There are also features out the wahzoo that I’m sure you’ve never considered needing in a disposable email service, all for only $2 per month.

This has been another ad-free, payola free review from a happy 7 + year customer.

I always wonder how loud hipsters would scream to OSHA if they were _forced_ by their employer to ride a fixie bike without adequate brakes on both front and rear wheels and an exposed drive train that can’t freewheel and doesn’t have a guard to protect the chainring from eating your pants leg.