What is also interesting is that Montgomery County, right next to DC, has the following on the books:
http://tinyurl.com/2a8mbu Sec. 2-15. Same-Arms and ammunition; civilian defense personnel; regulations, etc. In order to carry out the provisions of sections 2-14 through 2-16 of this Code, the county executive may provide and furnish arms and ammunition to the citizens of the County or to the militia of the state, and may provide and furnish any or all persons engaged in public defense within the county with protective armor and such other equipment and supplies and also purchase, rent, hire and maintain lands, buildings, and equipment as may be considered to be necessary and proper. The county executive may engage the service of persons charged with assisting in public defense and may, with the approval of the council, fix the compensation of such persons, including the payment for services heretofore rendered in connection with the civilian defense activities of the county, and may do all other things needful and necessary to protect and safeguard the people and property within the county from actual or threatened armed invasion or insurrection, and may alleviate their suffering resulting from fire, flood, disaster or epidemic of disease, or other such emergencies. The county executive is authorized to adopt regulations under method (2) of section 2A-15 of this Code to protect the citizens of the county during blackouts, practice air raid alarms, air raids and invasion. All acts done and all money expended by the county for such purposes, either heretofore or hereafter, including the purchase of equipment for civilian defense organization and maintenance, the employment of administrative and technical aid in the interest of civilian defense, the purchase of medical supplies for casualty stations, and the purchase of arms, ammunition and providing and furnishing of telephone service and other service and supplies are hereby ratified and confirmed as just and lawful acts of the county. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 2-20; 1943, ch. 75, § 2; 1970 L.M.C., ch. 9, § 2; 1984 L.M.C., ch. 24, § 4; 1984 L.M.C., ch. 27, § 5.) So the County Executive, in times of emergency, can furnish me with a fully automatic functioning AR-15? Heck, if its "same arms" for guarding the road block at the reservoir, I better have a Hummer with a belt fed on a pintle mount. The MD Constitution includes: > MILITIA AND MILITARY AFFAIRS. SECTION 1. The General Assembly shall make, from time to time, such provisions for organizing, equipping and disciplining the Militia, as the exigency may require,and pass such Laws to promote Volunteer Militia organizations as may afford them effectual encouragement. It might be prudent to encourage the "Volunteer Militia" by providing some effectual training before we are invaded again. -dZ On Jan 25, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Raymond Kessler wrote: Thanks Doc: There were similar events in many states just before and during the early stages of WWI and WWII. Self-armed groups undertook patrol duties in many areas in both wars. As for the registration claim by another poster, I've never seen any evidence of such anywhere in the U.S. _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
