FLORIDA GUN OWNER ACTION ALERT United Sportsmen of Florida | March 3, 2006 | Marion Hammer Posted on 03/03/2006 2:43:06 PM PST by ExSoldier Every gun owner who lives in Florida or comes to Florida as a tourist or visitor or on business needs to join this fight to protect the right to have a firearm in vehicles for lawful purposes. This right belongs to ALL gun owners everywhere -- not just those who live in Florida. Please forward this email to others on your email list. Spread the word. URGENT-- MORE ACTION NEEDED*** /Possession/Guns/Private Vehicles DATE: March 3, 2006 TO: USF & NRA Members and Friends FROM: Marion P. Hammer NRA Past President Executive Director Unified Sportsmen of Florida SUBJECT: SB-206 Protect Possession of Firearms in Vehicles in Parking Lots The Senate Criminal Justice Committee will hold another hearing on SB-206 by Sen. Durell Peaden Wednesday, March 8, 2006. Some Florida businesses, lead by the Florida Chamber of Commerce and the Florida Retail Federation, are trying to ban guns in cars. They are violating the constitutional rights of gun owners and Florida law. SB-206 protects your right to have a gun in your vehicle (car, truck, minivan, sports utility vehicle, motorcycle, motor home, RV, etc.) for lawful purposes. The Florida Chamber of Commerce and the Florida Retail Federation have decided to trample privacy rights and the Second Amendment rights of Florida's 6 Million law-abiding firearms owners. Urged into battle by Publix Super Markets, Disney World, and other big corporations, they have engaged in a campaign to try to kill the bill that protects your right to protect yourself and your family. They want to ban guns by denying your right to have a firearm in your private vehicle when you park in a parking lot that accommodates the public and company employees. Your right to have a gun in your car is GUTTED if you can never stop and park your car in a parking lot. Big business is trying to claim their rights as parking lot owners supersede your constitutional right and legal right to carry firearms in your private vehicles for lawful purposes. But they are wrong. They have no constitutional or legal right to search your vehicle or tell you what legal personal private property you can have inside your private vehicle in their parking lot or anywhere else. Our constitutional and legal rights DO NOT END when we drive into a parking lot. Carrying firearms in a vehicle 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 the dry cleaners, to the shoe store or anywhere else normal people travel. THIS ISSUE is much bigger than parking lots. The issue is carrying a firearm in your private vehicle for protection of yourself and your family when you are traveling to and from work, to and from shopping and to and from any place law-abiding normally go in the course of daily routines. The Florida Chamber of Commerce and the Florida Retail Federation along with the national antigun organization called the BRADY CAMPAIGN are emailing committee members urging them to vote against SB-206. YOU NEED TO ACT NOW to counter this antigun attack on your Second Amendment and self-defense rights. Please immediately send email to members of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee and URGE THEM TO SUPPORT SB-206 by Sen. Peaden. (Below is a list of the email addresses of those you need to contact) IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR EMAIL PUT: SUPPORT SB-206 - Protect Possession of Firearms in Vehicles/Parking Lots (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.) SENATE CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND SENATE LEADERS WHO NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU: wise.stephen.web@flsenate.gov smith.rod.web@flsenate.gov crist.victor.web@flsenate.gov haridopolos.mike.web@flsenate.gov king.james.web@flsenate.gov klein.ron.web@flsenate.gov lynn.evelyn.web@flsenate.gov wilson.frederica.web@flsenate.gov lee.tom.web@flsenate.gov peaden.durell.web@flsenate.gov pruitt.ken.web@flsenate.gov villalobos.alex.web@flsenate.gov webster.daniel.web@flsenate.gov PLEASE SEND EMAIL IMMEDIATELY AND URGE THEM TO SUPPORT SB-206 by Sen. Durell Peaden
That sucks - one of the great things about NV is we can have anything we want in vehicles, loaded. Plus no one can change that except at the state level.
