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Fla. lawmakers OK take-your-guns-to-work law

TALLAHASSEE, Florida - Most Florida residents would be allowed to take guns to work under a measure passed by Florida lawmakers on Wednesday.

The bill, allowing workers to keep guns in their cars for self-protection, was approved by the Florida Senate by a vote of 26-13. It now goes to Republican Gov. Charlie Crist to sign into law.

Backed by the National Rifle Association and some labor unions, the so-called “take-your-guns-to-work” measure would prohibit business owners from banning guns kept locked in motor vehicles on their private property.

The measure applies to employees, customers and those invited to the business establishment as long as they have a permit to carry the weapon.

Thanks, QG, for the link to this.

Can you believe the utter stupidity??? Tell me something… WHY don’t these gun nuts argue for rights for people while inside court rooms? I think people in court rooms across America should be allowed to carry a loaded gun. And I want the NRA to fight for that. Isn’t that my friggin’ Constitutional right???

Also, I want the NRA to fight for my right to carry a loaded AK-47 through ritzy, upscale, republican-leaning neighborhoods. I want to be able to walk their streets, day or night, with my loaded gun… cause you never know when I may need to defend myself!

More guns may enter U.S. parks

National parks may follow in Florida’s quiet footsteps in relaxing gun restrictions in wild lands.

Along with cameras, coolers and camping gear, visitors to Biscayne and Everglades national parks sometimes pack something else: Guns. [...]

National Park Service rules already allow guns — but only unloaded and stored so they are not ”readily accessible.” Gun-rights advocates argue that restriction infringes on their ability to defend themselves.

”Having a firearm loaded puts you in a better position to protect yourself,” said Barbara Jean Powell, spokeswoman for the Everglades Coordinating Council, a coalition of hunting and outdoors groups. ‘Every time I read about some woman walking in a park who gets abducted and murdered, I think, `If she had a firearm, she might have had a chance.’ ”

“If she had a firearm, she might have had a chance.” Barbara Jean Powell, you are one stupid bitch.

Relaxing the rules and putting more guns in more hands will mean even more bad guys are going to be abducting and murdering woman. I don’t wish for you to be one of them, but hey, keep peddling that brand of stupidity and you just might be.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

No matter how you feel towards the Second Amendment, this legislation is definitely a step in the right direction!

Democrats, NRA reach deal on gun bill

Measure stiffening background checks would be 1st major reform since ‘94
Jonathan Weisman, washingtonpost

Senior Democrats have reached agreement with the National Rifle Association on what could be the first federal gun-control legislation since 1994, a measure to significantly strengthen the national system that checks the backgrounds of gun buyers.

The sensitive talks began in April, days after a mentally ill gunman killed 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech University. The shooter, Seung Hui Cho, had been judicially ordered to submit to a psychiatric evaluation, which should have disqualified him from buying handguns. But the state of Virginia never forwarded that information to the federal National Instant Check System (NICS), and the massacre exposed a loophole in the 13-year-old background-check program.
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By contrast, this agreement is a marriage of convenience for both sides. Democratic leaders are eager to show that they can respond legislatively to the Virginia Tech rampage, a feat that GOP leaders would not muster after the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado. Meanwhile, the NRA was motivated to show it would not stand in the way of a bill that would not harm law-abiding gun buyers. Even so, it drove a hard bargain to quiet its smaller but more vociferous rival, Gun Owners of America, which has long opposed McCarthy’s background-check bill.

More at MSNBC.com

Surprise! The NRA wants gun sales to suspected and known terrorists not to be banned. Whoda thunkit?

“…the word ’suspect’ has no legal meaning, particularly when it comes to denying constitutional liberties” -NRA executive director Chris Cox

GEE, YA THINK?!

NRA: Don’t ban gun sales to suspects

WASHINGTON - The National Rifle Association is urging the Bush administration to withdraw its support of a bill that would prohibit suspected terrorists from buying firearms.

Backed by the Justice Department, the measure would give the attorney general the discretion to block gun sales, licenses or permits to terror suspects.

In a letter this week to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, NRA executive director Chris Cox said the bill, offered last week by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., “would allow arbitrary denial of Second Amendment rights based on mere ’suspicions’ of a terrorist threat.”

“As many of our friends in law enforcement have rightly pointed out, the word ’suspect’ has no legal meaning, particularly when it comes to denying constitutional liberties,” Cox wrote.
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“When I tell people that you can be on a terrorist watch list and still be allowed to buy as many guns as you want, they are shocked,” said Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which supports Lautenberg’s bill.

Source: Yahoo! News