How are people treated for gun crimes? Let’s calibrate our expectations. As reported in the general press, Christine Boyd was criminally charged in 1995 after her 11 year old child stole her loaded Glock and later used it to assault a 10 year old child in an argument over a jacket. The following year a neighbor filed charges, alleging that Boyd went to the neighbor’s home, displayed a gun and challenged the neighbor to a fight. The year after that, Boyd was arrested after doctors concluded her daughter had been abused.

There’s a pattern here, but of charges without aggressive prosecution, much less of convictions. That should seem odd, since as a matter of policy, state’s attorneys in urban areas simply don’t drop charges involving guns.

What justice finally caught up with Boyd’s long history? Last week she was reinstated as a Baltimore police officer and re-issued her Glock handgun. We’ll let you know the first time we see a cop go through Baltimore’s new "gun court" as a defendant. Don’t hold your breath.

Also as reported: In 1995, Baltimore City Police’s Richard Waybright kicked, punched and dragged a handcuffed prisoner in the station house booking area. At least he was eventually fired. Any criminal charges? No, Baltimore had something different in store for Waybright. Not long ago, Colonel Ronald Daniel, as a new police commissioner, signed a recommendation letter so Waybright could get a carry permit from the Maryland State Police. You know, a privilege you and I don’t get because we’re not among the power elite in Maryland.

Every day in America, honest citizens who once pled guilty to simple, non-violent offenses become felons – worthy of years mandatory jail time under Project Exile – for simply being found to own a gun. What would happen to your guns and liberty under the above circumstances? Baltimore City has no moral authority to enforce gun laws against us until they can explain why the likes of Waybright and Boyd can walk the streets (much less remain armed.)

But wait, there's more: Baltimore police officer Michael Snow was just arrested on four counts of bank robbery. Reports say he was disciplined for assault on a tow truck driver in 1998; we presume that means cops closed ranks to give administrative punishment rather charge him like they would you or me in the same circumstance. Under federal law, anyone caught possessing a firearm after having been convicted of assault would get jail time under Exile. But again, Exile is what police use against gun owners when they can’t get us on anything else, it isn’t for use against fellow cops. Police leadership protected Snow to keep his job and gun, so he could go on to commit armed bank robbery with his duty sidearm.