General Bill by Braynon
Concealed Weapons or Firearms Licensing: Decreasing the number of years that licenses to carry concealed weapons or firearms are valid; specifying that experience with a firearm through military service in the Armed Forces of the United States meets the requirement of demonstrating competence with a firearm; requiring that the full set of fingerprints submitted as part of an application for a license be retained by specified entities; requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to bear the licensee’s fingerprint retention fee, etc.
Effective Date: 07/01/2020
Last Event: 01/08/20 S Filed on Wednesday, January 8, 2020 4:08 PM
The Senate version of HB 809. I am pasting what I already posted over there:
It demands your fingerprints in a biometric database that can be accessed nationwide. Renewals are reduced to every 5 years rather than 7 and then take an 8 hour class every time you have to renew your license.
This is a 100% ball buster bill since we have the stats proving that those with CWL are the most law abiding Floridians. Since the Shall Issue licenses became law, only one third of one percent have been permanently revoked for any cause stated in the law: Felony (Violent or otherwise), misdemeanor domestic abuse or mental issues.
Florida Gun Rights 2020 – SB 1566 – Screwing with the Licenses to Carry Concealed Weapons or Firearms Senate Version) – BAD BILL
Sorry, this is not specifically apropos to this post, but I thought that you would like to know: In Virginia, regarding the push-back against the Democrat-majority (barely) to take office this month, their proposed plethora of anti-gun bills has, as you know, raised the ire of the majority of the state not in the “blue bubbles” of northern Virginia, Richmond, and Norfolk. The vast majority of the state is solidly conservative.
As I’ve reported before, the localities in Virginia are certain incorporated towns (not part of a county), and the counties themselves. The Virginia Citizens Defense League (full disclosure: I am a longtime VCDL member) reports today that the number of localities that have passed a “Second Amendment Sanctuary” ordinance, which purports to nullify any state statute that infringes on the right to bear arms, is not only a majority, but a landslide!. The numbers are staggering: “125 sanctuaries, which is 94% of all localities! Looking just at counties, the number is 96%!” And not all the votes are in yet.
Remember that the Virginia State Motto is “Sic Semper Tyrannis!”, which means, “Thus Always to Tyrants!” In the state seal and flag, the tyrant is dead, at the hands of an armed “virtue.”
Just thought that you would like to know.