Maryland’s governor on May 26 signed legislation that bans selling, buying, and receiving many handguns, prompting groups such as the National Rifle Association to sue.
Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, signed Senate Bill 334, which bars people from manufacturing, selling, buying, receiving, or transferring guns defined as “machine gun convertible pistols.”
Pistols with cruciform trigger bars that can be “readily converted … into a machine gun” through the attachment of a “pistol convertor” fall under the definition, per the law.
The prohibition starts Jan. 1, 2027.
Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson, also a Democrat, told a briefing on Tuesday ahead of Moore’s signing the bill that the converters are cheap devices that turn handguns into machine guns….