MaryLand 30 day wait

My understanding is that it is 30 days from delivery.

If you pick up a gun on January 15th, you must wait until February 15th to take possession of the next. This can work out ok for you though.

If you go into the shop on January 25th and see another handgun that you can't live without, you can pay for it, run the paperwork and just not take delivery of it until the 30 days is up.

That's my read on it. If I'm wrong, someone correct me.

I actually ran in to that, and yes you are correct Norton, you can put a deposit on the weapon, most shops will hold it, but the paper work was not submitted until the 30 days from delivery of the last firearm. During that same time I went and got designated as a collector . That saves a lot of headache.

You used to be able to get the application from the MSP web site here:

www.mdsp.org/downloads/downloads_intro.asp

But the regulated firearms collector pdf seems to no longer work. hmmm sign of things to come?

Sorry drifted off...

Anyway most dealers can give you a paper copy, fill it out send it in and get designated as a collector then you can urchase multiple regulated firearms at once and the 1 a month law no longer applies.

I second the collectors application.

Print it, fill it out, get it notarized.

Mail or drop it off at the MD State Police Barracks in Jessup, MD.

I dropped mine off on a Tuesday and got the approval letter in the mail 3 days later on Friday.

From what I have read, most of the time it takes 1-3 weeks if you mail it in.
I'm not sure if mine went faster because I dropped it off (other than the 1-3 days of travel saved for taking it rather than mailing to there)

Some good info.

What exactly are the benifits to being a registered collector? any drawbacks?

Drawbacks? Non-that I've run into. About the only issued I've had was with a dealer that didn't know what collector status was.

Collector status drawback is that it opens your door to inspection by MSP should problems arise with any firearms you own, i.e. one of your guns shows up at a crime scene. Other than that, they pretty much leave you alone. I'm sure collectors are placed in a special file that gets monitored, but that is another topic...

The benefits more than outweigh the drawbacks.

For example, AR15s are regulated. You can only buy one at a time (well, I suppose you could get 2 but then you can't buy any regulated stuff for 60 days)

I am able to get 5 AR-15 lowers, pay the $10 Maryland State police fee once, and get a break for ordering multiple lowers.

There are a few other benefits, but the main thing is not having the "1-regulated gun every 30 days" law.