Senate and House (HB1047) bills on this one, SB 1446: Defense of Life, Home, and Property.

Provides that defensive display of weapon or firearm, including discharge of firearm for purpose of warning shot, does not constitute use of deadly force; provides immunity from prosecution for persons acting in defense of life, home, & property from violent attack or threat of violent attack through certain displays of or uses of force.

On initial reading, I like this bill. It will provide Florida Gun Owners with one more tool to de-escalate a possible bad situation and I am all for that. If seeing the business end of a gun helps Johnny Lawbreaker take pause and decide it is time for him to turn around, go home and watch the DVRed episodes of Downtown Abbey, I am all for that.

I am not a lawyer, not play one in the interwebs but I think that it would even help in a case of defensive shooting if a warning display of a firearm or shooting a warning shot were prior to the action as it would knock down any possible claim by a D.A. that one was looking for trouble or did not seek to end the situation by less than lethal means. IMHO it is hard to make a case of murder if the attacker has been warned in advance that he is about to be the recipient of deadly force and still chose to continue his actions. Perhaps Robert The K. may shed some more info and interpretation on this law and its possible pitfalls for us.

I expect that DAs all over Florida will have kittens and hate this law.

No, I did not develop an app for a smartphone. I don’t even own one!

Via The View From North Central Idaho we get The Gun Free Zone App that allows you to check for places where the carrying of a firearm is verbotten.

Join other citizens as you report and find Gun Free Zones throughout the United States. Whether you want to shop in gun free zones as often as possible or avoid them altogether, this app will help you shop, play, and do business with like-minded people.

Anything that helps you stay away from Grey Bar hotel is a good thing. Smart the way he/she appeals to both the Anti and Pro gun crowds. Capitalism at best!

Hat Tip to George Babalu del Carmen Mariano & Concepcion…. OK Just George.

HM 545 – Right to Keep and Bear Arms:

WHEREAS, it is the duty of the Legislature to exercise all of its lawful authority and power to protect the right of the people of this state to keep and bear arms, NOW, THEREFORE, Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida: That it is the sense of the Legislature that the proposals of the President of the United States to restrict the arms available to law-abiding citizens violate the United States Constitution and that the Legislature, on behalf of the government and citizens of the state, hereby notifies the Congress and the President that it intends to lawfully use all of its authority and power to resist or overturn any federal gun control measure that violates the right of the people of this state to keep and bear arms.

The memorial has 55 sponsors. You have been told.

Marra was sculpting a tribute to SEALs at his Sarasota, Florida, studio when he heard Kyle had been killed by a troubled veteran he was trying to help. Greg Marra switched his focus and worked non-stop from photographs

via Artist brings Chris Kyle statue to Texas | kvue.com Austin.

Fitting tribute if you ask me.

06 MAR 1836

2200 hours, D-1, one hundred and seventy-seven years ago General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna ordered that the artillery barrage which had fallen upon the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Bexar for twelve days be halted.

via The LawDog Files: 06 MAR 1836.

Go read the rest of his post about The Alamo.

If you do not have LawDog in your Must-Read list, you are missing one of the best bloggers out there. The day he decides to compile his writtngs in a book, I’ll be the first ordering it in Amazon.

Jon Gutmacher, an Orlando attorney and author of “Florida Firearms: Law, Use & Ownership,” told FoxNews.com that the bill would almost certainly be found to be unconstitutional based on prior restraint.

“It has no reasonable relationship to anything,” he said. “There has to be a reasonable basis to believe that a person had a substantial anger problem that could cause public harm.”

Gutmacher said he found the bill to be an “insult” to any gun owner in the Sunshine State.

“It’s absurd on its face,” he continued. “And anyone who proposes that legislation is in my mind unfit for the legislature because it shows a basic problem with their thinking process, aside from their lack of understanding of what the Constitution is all about. That’s the kind of bill that doesn’t even get past committee.”

via Florida bill would require anger management courses for bullet buyers | Fox News.

Ouch! But with our proprietary brand of Florida Stupid in the State’s legislature, they need to be reminded that they were elected to serve the people and not act like tin pot dictators.

Funny!