Yoda
Member
If you're a Florida resident, please write a letter to your state representative urging them to repeal Sec 790.28. This single-sentence law "allows" Floridians to buy long guns (rifles and shotguns) in adjoining states. As near as I can tell, we're one of only six states with such a provision. What this means is that you could be traveling through Arizona or Virginia, see a rifle you want, but not be able to buy it and take possession on the spot. Instead, you'd have to have the FFL mail it to an FFL in Florida, where the Florida FFL will run the same NICS check that could have been run in the state where you first tried to purchase the gun.
Our Florida laws are pretty good in most other respects. This one is a real oddity. It apparently was written when other laws throughout the nation were more restrictive, so at the time, it "gave" us perogatives that residents of most other states did not have. Now, it serves just two purposes. First, it imposes an unnecessary hassle on legal gun purchasers. Second, it allows ATF agents to play "gotcha" with FFLs in other states who aren't aware of Florida's Sec 790.28. Since there is a Federal law that says FFL can't sell to out-of-state buyers whose state of residence prohibit out-of-state purchases, then 790.28 serves as a trap for unwary FFLs in the 47 states that DON'T adjoin Florida.
Please write a letter to your representative. I've already written to marion Hammer and to 23 Florida state senators and representatives. These guys respond to letters. Write one.
- - - Yoda
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Our Florida laws are pretty good in most other respects. This one is a real oddity. It apparently was written when other laws throughout the nation were more restrictive, so at the time, it "gave" us perogatives that residents of most other states did not have. Now, it serves just two purposes. First, it imposes an unnecessary hassle on legal gun purchasers. Second, it allows ATF agents to play "gotcha" with FFLs in other states who aren't aware of Florida's Sec 790.28. Since there is a Federal law that says FFL can't sell to out-of-state buyers whose state of residence prohibit out-of-state purchases, then 790.28 serves as a trap for unwary FFLs in the 47 states that DON'T adjoin Florida.
Please write a letter to your representative. I've already written to marion Hammer and to 23 Florida state senators and representatives. These guys respond to letters. Write one.
- - - Yoda
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