As usual, the link to the text itself is provided, go and check it. I am offering a summary of the amendment. I will stress that this are not just simple additions to the Florida Statutes but changes to the Florida Constitution that only happen every 20 years. That means if passed, they are set in stone and even the Florida Supreme Court will have to abide by them for the next two decades at least.

The amendment  (text here) to the Florida Constitution brought forward by Commissioner Roberto Martinez (Bio).

• Seals the minimum purchase date of a firearm to 21 years of age and older.
• A Waiting Period of 3 days for the purchase of a Firearm while a ” comprehensive background check” (whatever the heck that could be) occurs. The waiting period can be extended if the background check does not happen during that time.
• Banning of bumpfire and devices that “alter the rate of a firearm to mimic automatic weapon fire or which is used to increase the rate of fire to a faster rate than is possible for a person to fire a semiautomatic firearm unassisted by a kit, a tool, an accessory, or a device.”

As usual, the link to the text itself is provided, go and check it. I am offering a summary of the amendment. I will stress that this are not just simple additions to the Florida Statutes but changes to the Florida Constitution that only happen every 20 years. That means if passed, they are set in stone and even the Florida Supreme Court will have to abide by them for the next two decades at least.

There are two amendments to the Florida Constitution brought forward by Commissioner Roberto Martinez (Bio).

• • Assault Weapons Ban (undefined what constitutes an “Assault Weapon” other than the ability to hold 10 or more rounds in a fixed or removable magazine. (text here)
  • Defining “transfer of an “assault weapon” as “the conveyance of an assault weapon from a person or entity to another person or entity, without any associated conveyance of money or other valuable consideration” (text here)

Notice that the second proposal makes illegal the simple loan or even handing over of one of these Evil Black Rifles as if they were contaminated with some nefarious Liberty Virus that could not be allowed to propagate.

He’s got still two more amendments added, but they are basically repetitions of the above. Still they all are Gun Control and need to be kept away from the Florida Constitution.

Here we go again. Here is what they are proposing. Remember, this is not just a new law but the State Constitution. If passed, all state courts will have to abide by it and that means a longer and more expensive challenge to take it to Federal Court to battle.

A proposal to amend Sections 2 and 8 of Article I of the State Constitution to remove a provision authorizing laws that regulate or prohibit the ownership, inheritance, disposition, and possession of real property by aliens ineligible for citizenship, to limit the age to purchase a firearm to at least twenty-one years of age, to require three days between the purchase and delivery of a firearm, to require a comprehensive background check during the period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm as prescribed by law, and to prohibit specified acts relating to the sale and possession of a bump-fire stock.

And the title is amended as follows:
Delete lines 88 – 89
and insert:
law, to prohibit specified acts relating to the sale and possession of a bump fire stock, and to prohibit the sale and transfer of assault weapons. s.

A proposal to amend Section 8 of Article I of the State Constitution to limit the age to purchase a firearm to at least twenty-one years of age, to require ten days between the purchase and delivery of a firearm, to require a comprehensive background check during the period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm as prescribed by law, to prohibit specified acts relating to the sale and possession of a bump-fire stock, to prohibit the sale and possession of assault weapons, and to prohibit the sale and possession of large capacity magazines.

A proposal to amend Sections 2 and 8 of Article I of the State Constitution to remove a provision authorizing laws that regulate or prohibit the ownership, inheritance, disposition, and possession of real property by aliens ineligible for citizenship, and to prohibit the sale and transfer of assault weapons.

I will go in detail the next days about each proposal.

But in the meantime, start emailing the crap out of the people in the Constitutional Commission. NRA Alert follows.

Some of the members of the Florida Constitution Revision Commission (CRC) are very anti-gun and they are proposing and pushing gun ban and gun control amendments to put in the Florida Constitution.

Commissioners will be voting on these amendments soon. Links to these amendments are listed at the bottom.

Among these amendments are:

*An “assault weapons” ban which bans the distribution, sale, transfer, and possession of so-called assault weapons and any detachable magazine that has a capacity of more than 9 rounds.  (Makes possession illegal with no compensation provided for those already possessed that must be surrendered)

*A ban on any semi-automatic rifle that is able to accept a detachable magazine or has a fixed magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds. (that means almost all semi-automatic rifles)

*A ban on the sale and transfer of “assault weapons” and defines “transfer” as the conveyance “from a person or entity to another person or entity WITHOUT any conveyance of money or other valuable consideration.”  (Note: to “convey” between persons without compensation could mean the simple act of handing the firearm to another person while hunting, on the range, or anywhere)

*A 10 day waiting period (excluding weekends and legal holidays) on all firearms to facilitate a background check.

*A ban on the purchase of any firearm by a person under 21 years of age.

*A ban on the sale, transfer and possession of bump stocks and other accessories, tools, kits, etc.

Please email CRC Commissioners and tell them to OPPOSE gun control amendments!

PLEASE DO IT NOW!!! They could be voting on these amendments at any time!

IN THE SUBJECT LINE PUT:  VOTE AGAINST GUN CONTROL AMENDMENTS

(To send your message to all just Block and Copy All email addresses into the “Send To” box)

jose.armas@flcrc.gov
pam.bondi@flcrc.gov
lisa.carlton@flcrc.gov
timothy.cerio@flcrc.gov
hank.coxe@flcrc.gov
jose.diaz@flcrc.gov
erika.donalds@flcrc.gov
don.gaetz@flcrc.gov
emery.gainey@flcrc.gov
anna.gamez@flcrc.gov
brecht.heuchan@flcrc.gov
marva.johnson@flcrc.gov
darlene.jordan@flcrc.gov
arthenia.joyner@flcrc.gov
fred.karlinsky@flcrc.gov
belinda.keiser@flcrc.gov
frank.kruppenbacher@flcrc.gov
tom.lee@flcrc.gov
gary.lester@flcrc.gov
patricia.levesque@flcrc.gov
roberto.martinez@flcrc.gov
rich.newsome@flcrc.gov
chris.nocco@flcrc.gov
jeanette.nunez@flcrc.gov
jimmy.patronis@flcrc.gov
sherry.plymale@flcrc.gov
darryl.rouson@flcrc.gov
william.schifino@flcrc.gov
chris.smith@flcrc.gov
bob.solari@flcrc.gov
chris.sprowls@flcrc.gov
john.stemberger@flcrc.gov
pam.stewart@flcrc.gov
jacqui.lippisch@flcrc.gov
carolyn.timmann@flcrc.gov
nicole.washington@flcrc.gov

Braden posted this comment on “Making our point for us in Thousand Oaks“.

“Since when is it my job to protect other people? We are told we are not police and when we come to the aid of strangers we do so with some legal peril.

My CCW is for me and my family and maybe, just maybe, a stranger.”

He is not wrong even if we disagree because the question of what to do as a Civilian in case of a Mass Shooting Incident simply does not have one answer.

I have been thinking about the “right” answer since I got my FL CWP and you will probably see it reflected in the blog if you have been with us since the beginning. I kept changing my answer: First i was all gun-ho and “Hell Yes! I will fill the asshole full of holes!” and then as time passed and the realities set in, I went to “OH hell no!” and it has been back and forth and in between for a long time.

The conclusion I came to is that the answer will never be known till you are involved in a situation like that and after having all factors processed in one big ass hurry. Are you alone? Are you with armed family? Are you with unarmed family and kids? Is the shooter coming your way? Is he going away? Is he above/below you? Are people running away from the shooter and stampeding towards you? Are you full of health that day? Are you sick? Can you and yours evacuate? Are you cornered and ran out of choices?

And even if you die, it does not mean your answer was wrong.

The permutations are endless.

With some hesitation born of nostalgia, I turned in two AR style rifles to the Miami Police Department as part of their gun buy-back program today.

As a former U.S. Army Infantry officer, I was well trained in the use of, and felt very comfortable with, the M-16/M-4 platform. I have always considered myself a responsible gun owner. My 14 year old daughter and I built one of the ARs- from scratch- together.

But after the events of last month, I have decided enough is enough.

Why am I calling bullshit on this one?  Yes, there are idiots out there turning or destroying their AR 15s, we have covered them here before. But you want to tell me that you built and accessorized the ARs and are willing to trade that scope for a $200 gift card? We are talking a scope that can be removed and used on a bolt-action hunting rifle that the Liberals insist we can keep because George Washington fought against venison wearing red coats and bleating with a British accent.

I am willing to bet the scope is easy triple the amount of taxpayer’s money he is getting for one of the rifles. Dear God I have been looking a simple frigging red dots for AR and $200 barely cover a basic decent one. And you are gonna tell me you are not going to remove a full fledged scope and sell it but just let it be destroyed with the rifle for a measly $200? Bullshit!

I am willing to bet those rifles are back in the owner’s gun safe after they did their duty posing for photographs. Or maybe back to some department’s weapons’ locker or evidence storage room.

I have been wrong before, though.

Hat Tip Jim K.

New Yorker Magazine cartoon published on March 15, 2018.

This is one of the running gun control lies. Gun are easy to obtain, yet you need to show ID for antihistaminic. It is a nice and quick lie that self sustains with the complicity of people who know better.

Here are some of the comments from readers extracted out of the Facebook page.

“Don’t get all riled up! It is not supposed to be accurate, it is humor/satire, but at the same time it reflects a sad reality that is 100% accurate about how it is much easier to get guns that Claritin.”

Unless the country the Liberals are awash with split personality disorder, there is no way you can willfully sustain both ideas and not be lying.

They are lying.

And they don’t care.