FlSwampRat
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So I guess there must be two AWB ballots.
I found this one first:
https://ballotpedia.org/Florida_Ban...ions_for_Firearm_Possession_Initiative_(2020)
It’s basically a ban on magazines over 7 rounds along with firearms capable of firing in “fully automatic mode” and “sniper rifles” (I imagine 50 bmg rifles is what they are getting at here). Hopefully the form 4 on my second machine gun clears before this thing passes!
Dan
The wording on this one is very scary.
The Florida Ban on Military-Style Firearms and Disqualifications for Firearm Possession Initiative (Initiative #18-03) may appear on the ballot in Florida as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020.
The measure would ban persons residing or entering the state from possessing military-style firearms. The measure would define military-style firearms as "any gun with a magazine capacity of more than seven rounds of ammunition or any weapon capable of firing in fully automatic mode, any weapon capable of being modified in any manner to fire in a fully automatic mode or any weapon classified as a sniper rifle."
Notice, it doesn't say "removable magazine". It doesn't say "center fired". Can a revolver's cylinder be construed as a magazine? If so my Sentinel 922 is a military-style firearm?
And what exactly is the classification parameters or definition of a sniper rifle?
The measure would also prohibit persons from possessing any firearm if the person had (a) been convicted of a felony; (b) been convicted of three or more misdemeanors; (c) his or her driver's license revoked for driving under the influence, reckless driving, or excessive speeding; (d) been subject to two or more domestic abuse emergency calls or investigations; (e) been diagnosed by a medical professional as psychologically disturbed; or (f) made any substantiated threat of violence against another person.
I can lose my gun rights for..... speeding? Three or more misdemeanors with no time frame? As in lifelong? If I spit on the sidewalk, play my stereo too loud and loitering I can't get a gun?
The measure would delete the existing language of Section 8(a) of Article I of the Florida Constitution, which provides people with the constitutional right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves.
This is the scariest part. What they are talking about deleting from the Florida Constitution is:
(a) The right of the people to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves and of the lawful authority of the state shall not be infringed, except that the manner of bearing arms may be regulated by law.