S.B. 195                                                  VETOES

Section 36B(e)                  

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1993 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 36E(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland                                                         

(1992 Replacement Volume and 1993 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

36B.

(c) (1) Nothing in this section shall prevent, the wearing, carrying, or
transporting of a handgun by: (i) law enforcement personnel of the United States, or of
this State, or of any county or city of this State; (ii) members of the armed forces of the
United States or of the National Guard while on duty or traveling to or from duty; (iii)
law enforcement personnel of some other state or subdivision thereof temporarily in this
State on official business; (iv) any jailer, prison guard, warden, or guard or keeper at any
penal, correctional or detention institution in this State; or (v) sheriffs and temporary or
full-time sheriffs' deputies, as to all of whom this exception shall apply only when they are
on active assignment engaged in law enforcement; provided, that any such person
mentioned in this paragraph is duly authorized at the time and under the circumstances
he is wearing, carrying, or transporting the weapon to wear, carry, or transport such
weapon as part of his official equipment.

(2) Nothing in this section shall prevent the wearing, carrying, or
transporting of a handgun by any person to whom a permit to wear, carry or transport any
such weapon has been issued under § 36E of this article.

(3) Nothing in this section shall prevent any person from carrying a handgun
on his person or in any vehicle while transporting the same to or from the place of legal
purchase or sale, or between bona fide residences of the individual, or between his bona
fide residence and his place of business, if the business is operated and substantially
owned by the individual, or to or from any bona fide repair shop. Nothing in this section
shall prevent any person from wearing, carrying, or transporting a handgun used in
connection with a target shoot, formal or informal target practice, sport shooting event,
hunting, a Department of Natural Resources sponsored firearms and hunter safety class,
trapping, dog obedience training class or show or any organized military activity while
engaged in, on the way to, or returning from any such activity. Nothing in this section
shall prevent any bona fide gun collector from moving any part or all of his gun collection
from place to place for public or private exhibition. However, while traveling to or from
any such place or event referred to in this paragraph, a handgun shall be unloaded and
carried in an enclosed case or enclosed holster.                         

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