Maryland

Genuinely ambiguous and worth flagging in the app. Md. Code, Crim. Law §4-203 bans wearing/carrying/transporting a handgun 'whether concealed or open' without a permit — I fetched this directly and it is silent on whether the permit itself must be used for concealed carry only. I also fetched Public Safety Article §5-306 (permit issuance criteria) and the MSP Wear & Carry Permit page directly — both are silent on concealment too; MSP calls it a single 'Wear and Carry Permit,' not a 'concealed carry permit.' Multiple secondary sources nonetheless claim Maryland practice/expectation is concealed-only, but I could not find that stated in any official source. Treat as 'permit required either way; whether the permit covers visible carry is unresolved from primary sources' rather than a clean yes or no.

Maryland has no statute prohibiting firearms with a valid permit in places of worship; property-owner discretion governs.

Md. Code, Crim. Law § 4-111(e) (cited by the Fourth Circuit as § 4-111(a)(2)(8)(i)) bans wear-and-carry permit holders from "establishments such as bars and restaurants licensed to sell or dispense alcohol... for on-site consumption" — a blanket restaurant ban on its face, no exception for not drinking. But per Maryland State Police's own prohibited-places page, the Fourth Circuit's Jan. 20, 2026 ruling in Kipke v. Moore held this specific restriction "cannot currently be enforced" pending U.S. Supreme Court review (while otherwise upholding most of Maryland's sensitive-places law). So the codified law says no, but current enforcement is paused and could resume.

Maryland's Wear & Carry permit is generally valid statewide, but Maryland State Police's official prohibited-places list bars carry (except for hunting/target shooting as permitted) 'In State Parks,' 'In State forests,' and 'On Chesapeake Forest lands' — and many popular Maryland boating lakes (e.g., Deep Creek Lake) sit inside state parks. There is also a narrow ban on carrying anything but a shotgun aboard 'dredge boats' (Nat. Res. § 4-1013). So carry on the water depends on whether that specific body of water is inside a state park/forest: general Chesapeake Bay and non-park waters are unrestricted, park-managed lakes are not (except while hunting/target shooting). Note some MD locational restrictions are currently enjoined pending Supreme Court review after the 4th Circuit's Kipke v. Moore decision (1/20/2026), though the state-park rule was upheld, not enjoined.

Md. Code, Criminal Law §4-111(d)(1) (added by the 2023 Firearm Safety Act, SB1) makes it unlawful to wear, carry, or transport a firearm in a 'government or public infrastructure area,' defined to include any building or part of a building owned or leased by a unit of state or local government — this reaches a DMV office and city hall exactly as it does a courthouse, with courthouse security further governed separately by the court system's own administrative authority. Applies to Wear & Carry permit holders with no general exception.

Md. Criminal Law Code Ann. § 4-111, as amended by legislation effective Oct. 1, 2023, prohibits firearms on the property of any public or private Maryland institution of higher education.

Directly checked the current Maryland statute (Public Safety Article/Criminal Law framework, GC § 4-111) enacted post-Bruen: it prohibits carry only in three defined categories of 'sensitive area' (areas for children/vulnerable individuals, government/public-infrastructure areas, and special-purpose areas) — it does NOT impose a blanket default-closed rule on ordinary private businesses. Whether carry is allowed in an ordinary store is therefore governed by the owner's own policy (opt-out/trespass model), not a state-mandated opt-in.

Verified directly from the official Maryland statute text: Crim. Law 4-111's enumerated 'sensitive location' categories (areas for children/vulnerable individuals, government/public infrastructure, 'special purpose areas' like bars/stadiums) do NOT include generic private property. Subsection (b)(9) affirmatively exempts the owner/lessee of non-government-controlled property and those the owner authorizes — confirming the state does not impose a consent-default on private, non-public property.

The only airport/aviation-related item I found in Maryland's carry restrictions is a ban on carrying 'aboard aircraft' (i.e., on the plane itself), not a restriction on airport terminal property. No Maryland source I found addresses the terminal itself one way or the other, so this is unconfirmed rather than a clear yes.

Maryland requires a Wear & Carry Permit to have a handgun in a vehicle for ordinary travel (MD Code, Criminal Law §4-203). Narrow unloaded/cased exceptions exist ONLY for specific enumerated purposes — direct transport to/from a dealer or repair shop, between one's home and business, to/from hunting or target shooting, or to/from a gun show — merely 'traveling through' Maryland is not itself one of the listed exceptions, which is the classic trap for interstate travelers without an MD-recognized permit.

No Maryland statute prohibits carrying with a proper permit in hospitals.

Maryland requires a wear-and-carry permit. Its 2023 'Gun Safety Act' sensitive-places statute (Md. Criminal Law §4-111) restricts preschools/private K-12 schools, health care facilities, government buildings, higher-ed campuses, polling places, utilities, and certain entertainment/alcohol venues — no rest-area mention. Verified against the statute text directly.

No Maryland statute found imposing a duty to inform law enforcement of a wear-and-carry permit during a stop.

The current text of Md. Public Safety Art. §5-306(a) (as amended after Bruen) lists no residency requirement among its issuance criteria, and Maryland State Police's own Wear & Carry page does not state one either — suggesting non-residents may now be eligible. However, secondary CCW-law summaries directly conflict: some say non-residents can apply, others say applicants must be "a Maryland resident, or own a business in Maryland" and that non-residents "cannot directly apply." I could not find an unambiguous official statement either confirming or ruling out non-resident eligibility, so this is marked unclear rather than guessed — contact the MSP Handgun Permit Unit (410-653-4500) to confirm before relying on this.

Verified against the official Maryland General Assembly statute text: Md. Crim. Law §4-102(b) flatly bars carrying/possessing a firearm on public school property. Its exceptions cover law enforcement (on- or off-duty), school-hired security, organized educational shooting activities, and principal-authorized historical demonstrations — NOT ordinary wear-and-carry handgun permit holders; in fact a handgun violation of this section triggers separate mandatory sentencing under Subtitle 2, treating licensed handgun carry there even more seriously, not as an exception.

Maryland's general 'posted property' trespass statute, Md. Crim. Law § 6-403, criminalizes entering/crossing private property 'after having been notified by the owner or the owner's agent not to do so,' and a posted sign can serve as that notice — but the statute reads as oriented toward land/real-property entry generally, and it's unclear whether it (rather than a personal request-to-leave) governs the more common scenario of an already-open-to-the-public retail store. No Maryland-specific firearms-signage statute was found.

Md. Code, Crim. Law § 4-209(a): the State preempts county/municipal regulation of purchase, possession, carrying, and transport of handguns/rifles/shotguns. Narrow named local exception in § 4-209(b): localities may regulate within 100 yards of parks, churches, schools, public buildings, and public assemblies, plus rules for minors and local law-enforcement conduct.

Md. Crim. Law § 4-111(d), part of Maryland's 2023 post-Bruen 'Gun Safety Act,' bars carrying a firearm in a 'government or public infrastructure area,' defined to include 'a location that is currently being used as a polling place.' No exception found for permit holders; violation is a misdemeanor (up to 1 yr).

10-round limit, but the statute bans manufacture, sale, offering for sale, purchase, receipt, and transfer — simple possession of an over-limit magazine is not itself criminalized. Md. Code Ann., Crim. Law § 4-305(b). Currently enforced (no magazine-specific injunction found; the related Bianchi/Snope v. Brown litigation concerned Maryland's separate assault-weapon ban, and SCOTUS denied cert. on that in June 2025).

Extreme Risk Protective Order, Md. Code, Public Safety § 5-601 et seq. (2018). Petitioners: family members (spouse, relatives, co-parents, current/former dating or intimate partners, current/former legal guardians), law enforcement officers, and mental-health/health professionals.

Suppressors: no Maryland-specific ban found; legal once federally registered. Short-barreled rifles/shotguns: possession is barred unless the possessor is law enforcement/military or the SBR/SBS 'has been registered with the federal government in accordance with federal law' — tracks the federal process. Machine guns: civilians may possess a pre-1986 transferable machine gun, but Maryland layers its own Uniform Machine Gun Act requirement (Crim. Law Title 4, Subtitle 4, §§4-402-4-406) on top of federal NFA registration — the gun must additionally be registered with the Maryland State Police within 24 hours of acquisition and that registration renewed annually; possession is also generally restricted to one's home or business premises.

No clean statute. Case law (State v. Faulkner, 301 Md. 482, 483 A.2d 759 (1984), Maryland's leading self-defense case) requires that a defendant have retreated or avoided danger if reasonably possible before using deadly force in public; the castle doctrine exempts one's own home from that requirement. No duty at home; duty in public if retreat is reasonably possible in complete safety. Secondary summary — the Faulkner citation and holding were not independently re-verified against a fetchable primary source this session; confirm against current Maryland Criminal Pattern Jury Instruction 5:07 before relying on this operationally.

Md. Code Ann., Pub. Safety §§ 5-101, 5-124, 5-204.1. Handguns and 'regulated firearms' (assault-style rifles) already required a licensed-dealer background check; in 2021 the legislature overrode Gov. Hogan's veto (SB1/HB4) to extend the same licensed-dealer background-check requirement to private sales of ordinary rifles and shotguns, closing the long-gun gap and making the requirement essentially universal across all firearm types.