This state has so many issues. Yet again, they've decided to restrict the rights of their citizens, passing yet another law that violates the Constitution, as do all gun control measures. Note, too, this has the GOP involved:
A Republican-led Florida Senate committee bucked the NRA to pass new controls for gun shows in the Sunshine State.
The gun control got the support of State Sen. Tom Lee, the same Sen. who voted to reinstate disgraced Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel in October 2019.
The Miami Heraldreports the new controls are aimed at private sales at gun shows.
They require a gun seller “to check the person’s ID to make sure
they’re legally allowed to own the weapon and fill out a form recording
the transaction.” The vendor would check these things via a “form” which
“would include a list of questions for the buyer, such as whether
they’re a felon, a fugitive from justice, or have anything else in their
history that would prevent them from owning a gun.”
The NRA’s Marion Hammer said, “It appears to be an actual attempt to
ban private sales through red tape and fear. Asking average citizens to
create what amounts to a government form and get it notarized is
ridiculous.”
Hammer described the new regulations as “nothing less than gun control on steroids.”
But Sen. Tom Lee defended the gun control vote, saying, “This
committee bill is our best effort to try to improve public safety on the
margins here. It is not a perfect system.”
Lee admitted that putting the seller in the position of performing a
quasi-background check on buyers places the seller in a tight spot. He
noted that the seller should hold on to a completed form “indefinitely,”
to show compliance with the regulation, in the event that a gun
“ultimately [gets] used in the commission of a crime.”
Michael Bloomberg-funded Moms Demand Action supported the gun control.
Shame that the elected officials in Florida and so any other states don't respect the Constitution of this nation, or the rights of their constituents. Floridians need to do some house cleaning in the coming election, and get these traitors to freedom voted out of office.
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