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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 29.03.03.02" title_num="29" subtitle_num="03" chapter_num="03" heading="Handgun Roster Board; Handgun Roster.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Pursuant to Public Safety Article, Title 5, Subtitle 4, Annotated Code of Maryland, there is a Handgun Roster Board within the Department of State Police. The office of the Handgun Roster Board is 1201 Reisterstown Road, Pikesville, Maryland 21208.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Except as provided in §C of this regulation, a person may not manufacture for distribution or sale any handgun that is not included on the Handgun Roster compiled by the Board. A person may not sell or offer for sale in the State a handgun manufactured after January 1, 1985, that is not on the Handgun Roster. Compliance with the provisions of this section is not required until January 1, 1990.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>This regulation does not interfere with:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>A person's ability to:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Manufacture, sell, or offer to sell a rifle or other weapon not defined as a handgun in Regulation .01B of this chapter,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Manufacture a prototype handgun model required for design, development, testing, and approval by the Board; and</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The manufacturing in the State of a handgun not on the Handgun Roster by a federally licensed gun manufacturer that is also licensed as a Regulated Firearms Dealer in the State for direct sale to a unit of:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>The federal government,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>A state other than Maryland,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>An out-of-State local government, or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>An out-of-State law enforcement agency.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>