(February 27, 2001) The Consumer Product Safety Commission recently came out with a report claiming virtually all gun locks are defective and should not be used. Perversely, Maryland now requires these to be transferred with all handguns in the state, assuming you can find a new handgun that is compliant with the shell case mandate. And by 2002 these inherent gun lock problems must be built into every new handgun in order to be legal for sale here. Glendening's SB 211 is the gun control bill that keeps on giving. All this is exactly as we warned legislators during hearings in spring 2000, of course, but Cas Taylor and Mike Miller were much too interested in producing for Bill Clinton to listen to facts. When asked to comment on the CPSC's report, administration sources stated only that they favored stiffening standards for gun locks: "The only satisfactory gun lock is one that can never be opened." No surprise