Unfriendly Amendment Removed!
Date: March 26, 2008
TO: USF & NRA Member and Friends
FROM: Marion P. Hammer
USF Executive Director
NRA Past President
Senate Bill 1130 sponsored by Sen. Durell Peaden was heard by the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday afternoon and the unfriendly amendment was removed and then the bill passed by a vote of 7-4.
SB-1130 by Senator Durell Peaden (R-Crestview) will protect your right to have a firearm in your car or truck for self-defense and other lawful purposes.
A series of anti-gun amendments including "assault weapons" amendments were defeated. The Senate bill is now ready for the Senate floor. More on this later.
In the meantime, HB-503 is still scheduled for action on the House floor TODAY. Keep the email flowing to the House. YOUR EMAIL MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
Please immediately send an email to ALL the members of the House and URGE THEM TO SUPPORT HB-503, then CALL YOUR Representative's Tallahassee office and urge him or her to support HB-503 (Below the list of email addresses is a link to Find Your Representative where you can get the phone number)
Below is a list of email addresses of those Representatives 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. A colon or semi-colon could be needed after each name depending upon the email system you are using.)
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GO HERE to find your Representative and get the phone number.
FURTHER, for more information on the issue, go here.
BACKGROUND:
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 gun owners into giving up constitutional rights as a condition of employment.
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.
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