# Public Safety (GPS)

## Title 5. Firearms

### Subtitle 9

#### Section 5-901

(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) "Firearm" has the meaning stated in Sec. 5-101 of this title.

(c) "Gun buyback program" means a program that is operated by a federal firearms licensee or a law enforcement agency that:

  (1) allows firearm owners to voluntarily surrender firearms;

  (2) is operated, either explicitly or impliedly, for the purpose of reducing the number of firearms in a community; and

  (3) advertises that firearms that are surrendered to the program will be destroyed or made permanently inoperable.

(d) "Secretary" has the meaning stated in Sec. 5-101 of this title.

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Md. Code Ann., Pub. Safety (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)