Florida Legislative Alert!!!! Action Needed!!!

[ExSoldier]

FLORIDA LEGISLATIVE ACTION ALERT!!!!

Subject: **ALERT**ALERT** "Guns-locked-up-in-your-car bill" ACTION NEEDED
HB-503 has been filed by Rep. Greg Evers (R-Milton).

Rep. Stan Mayfield, Chairman of the House Environment and Natural Resources Council, described the bill in a no-nonsense manner recently when speaking to the press. Chairman Mayfield said:

"Everyone keeps calling it the guns-to-work bill. The fact of the matter is it's the guns-locked-up-in-your-car bill."

The bill protects your right to have a firearm locked in your vehicle for self-defense and other lawful purposes when it is parked in a business parking lot.

HB-503 has been referred to Chairman Mayfield's Council where it can be scheduled for a hearing and vote at anytime after the 2008 Legislative Session begins on March 4th.

It is time to start sending email to members of the House Environment and Natural Resources Council to let them know how important this bill is to law-abiding gun owners who carry firearms in their vehicles for protection and other lawful purposes.

Please immediately send email to members of the Council and URGE THEM TO SUPPORT HB-503.

Below is a list of the email addresses of those you need to contact

IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR EMAIL PUT:

PLEASE SUPPORT HB-503 the "Guns-locked-up-in-your-car bill"

(To send one email to all committee members at the same time, block or highlight the entire list and then copy and paste the block into the address section of the email.)

House Environment & Natural Resources Council

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BACKGROUND:

Click here for a copy of HB-503:

http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx...

Or go to this site:

http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Secti...ocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0503&Session=2008

FURTHER, for more information on the issue, go to this link:

NRA-ILA: Articles

http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?id=244&issue=53
The bill will stop business entities from searching private vehicles and violating the constitutional rights of customers and employees.

Your Second Amendment rights are at the very heart of this issue. In addition to prohibiting searches of private vehicles in parking lots. The bills also prevent businesses from asking customers or employees to disclose what personal private property is stored in a private vehicle and prevents action against customers and employees who refuse to divulge that private information. Further, it prohibits action against a customer or employee based on information provided by a third party.

Some Florida businesses are trying to ban guns in cars in parking lot used by customers and employees. They are discriminating against people who exercise their constitutional rights – they are violating the constitutional rights of gun owners and Florida law.

Corporate giants have been trampling constitutional rights. Some are even attempting to coerce and intimidate gunowners into giving up constitutional rights as a condition of employment.

Your Rights are in Danger

(1) Your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms -- to have firearms in your vehicle for self-defense and other lawful purposes must be protected from antigun businesses;

(2) YOUR property and privacy rights – against searches of your private vehicle in parking lots must be protected from antigun businesses;

(3) Your right to freedom from coercion, intimidation and termination of employment for exercising constitutional rights by antigun employers must be preserved.

(4) Your right to meaningful self-protection must be maintained regardless of where you park your car.

The bill protects your right have a firearm in your vehicle for lawful purposes and to park your vehicle in parking lots when shopping, working or transacting business.

Carrying firearms in a vehicle for hunting, target shooting or protection of yourself and your family obviously means you can leave that firearm locked in the vehicle in a parking lot when you go grocery shopping, to the doctor's office, to the movie, to visit a sick friend in the hospital, to rent a movie, to the shoe store or anywhere else normal people travel to conduct business.

Florida law, the U.S. Constitution, and the Florida Constitution clearly and unequivocally give law abiding citizens to have firearms in their vehicles for lawful purposes.

Since there are CURRENTLY NO PENALTIES for violating to law, numerous businesses are violating the law and are banning firearms in their parking lots. Some gun ban policies apply to customers and employees.

 

[eric.cartman]

email sent

 

[Winchester 73]

ExSoldier,thank you for posting this important information.
Emails being prepared.

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This is an important bill to pass.Why should I have to commute defenselessly?
My locked up gun in the employee parking lot is not going to harm anyone.
On my commute ,it just may save my life.

Respectfully,
xxxxxxxxxxxx
Miami

 

[mekender]

realistically, what are the chances of this one passing? Disney has been hell bent against this for years, and they have a lot of money in FL.. .IMO, i would love to see it pass... but im a realist

 

[ExSoldier]

mekender: It is exactly BECAUSE Disney has a lot of money sunk into the state that they'll be pretty much helpless to retaliate. Realistically what are they going to do, pull up the Magic Kingdonm and move it to Anaheim CA? Too late. They'll still be able to regulate firearms possession inside the active operational perimeter of Disney, just not in the parking lots.

I'm a realist too. I was born and raised in this state. My dad graduated from Miami High in 1924! I remember when the state was a patchwork of laws going county to county. I had a ccw permit in three different states long before my own passed the legislation and frankly most folks who're old Flori-DUH doubted it would ever change but it did and it kept on changin' Now we're called the GUNSHINE state (with no small amount of pride, I should add) and things keep getting easier for gun owners. This legislation is very doable and should be passed! But like always, we have to hold the branding iron to their backsides to get 'em to move. Politicians are very much like cattle. Gotta keep prodding them to get 'em moving. With Democrat'S in this state, you generally need an electric cattle prod. Write the legislature! It's the very least you can do besides actually vote! You get the government and the laws you deserve.

 

[Winchester 73]

A positive answer from one FL House member:

RE: Please Support HB 503,The Guns Locked Up in Your Car Bill‏
From: Kreegel, Paige ([email protected])
Sent: Wed 3/05/08 5:30 PM
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Dear xxxx

Thank you for your recent letter regarding HB-503/SB-1130 “The Preservation and Protection of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in Motor Vehicles Act of 2008”, sponsored by Rep. Greg Evers.

This bill would prohibit and public or private entity from prohibiting customers, employees or invitees from possessing any legally owned firearm that is locked inside a private motor vehicle in a parking lot. It would also not allow any public or private business or individual to question employees or visitors as to whether or not they have a firearm in their automobile.

After thoroughly reviewing the bill language and speaking with Rep. Evers, I am proud to co-sponsor this important piece of legislation. Second Amendment rights are very important to me and many of my constituents in District 72. I believe this bill will protect the right of law abiding gun owners throughout the state.

I appreciate your taking the time to contact my office and giving me your opinion on this issue. If I may be of any assistance to you in the future, please let me know.

Paige Kreegel

State Representative

District 72

 

[CZ-100]

Emails sent to all, we shall see if I get a response...

 

[mekender]

mekender: It is exactly BECAUSE Disney has a lot of money sunk into the state that they'll be pretty much helpless to retaliate. Realistically what are they going to do, pull up the Magic Kingdonm and move it to Anaheim CA? Too late. They'll still be able to regulate firearms possession inside the active operational perimeter of Disney, just not in the parking lots.

I'm a realist too. I was born and raised in this state. My dad graduated from Miami High in 1924! I remember when the state was a patchwork of laws going county to county. I had a ccw permit in three different states long before my own passed the legislation and frankly most folks who're old Flori-DUH doubted it would ever change but it did and it kept on changin' Now we're called the GUNSHINE state (with no small amount of pride, I should add) and things keep getting easier for gun owners. This legislation is very doable and should be passed! But like always, we have to hold the branding iron to their backsides to get 'em to move. Politicians are very much like cattle. Gotta keep prodding them to get 'em moving. With Democrat'S in this state, you generally need an electric cattle prod. Write the legislature! It's the very least you can do besides actually vote! You get the government and the laws you deserve.

hey i agree, but i lived in Orlando up until last year, and after 28 years there, i know that what Disney says, goes... the area has a astronomical crime rate, but the papers keep quiet because Disney tells em to... ive seen several businesses that were forced to close because Disney didn't like their non family orientation... (club buoy at Cape Canaveral, all of the anti-adult establishment laws in Casselberry and other cities)...

you are right, Disney cant just pull up shop and move... but they can keep the legal challenges rolling for so long that the state cant afford to fight em... they can also start advising their customers to stay out of certain hotels or even municipalities... dont let Disney find out that the owner of Mariott supports this law, Disney can and will bankrupt em...

Imagine if Disney tells the state of FL that they will stop collecting the "tourism tax" for all of the hotels on its property... which might not be too much of a stretch considering that such a tax is an obvious violation of equal protection...

Imagine if Disney decides that they want to challenge the state lottery on moral grounds...

Disney is the largest organization in the state, the only thing with more employees statewide is the government... you can bet your ass that most of the politicians that value their jobs will listen when they speak...

hell, about 15 years ago, Disney damn near bankrupted a child care center because the daycare center dared to paint Disney characters on the wall... dont be fooled at all, the Mouse is a huge money laden thug that will be listened to... (thankfully universal went in and painted a bunch of universal characters for free)