After 2,663 lines of law and an initial appropriation of $400 million, Amendment 234288 will become the new text of SB 7026 from its original quaint 864 lines. Pork will be spent in Florida “hardening” schools and I have this feeling in the pit of my stomach that shit won’t get fixed.

-Raising the age to 21? Stays.
-Three day waiting Period? Stays, but by-passable with CWP and Hunter Education certificate and a Hunter Safety Card.
-Bumpfire devices are prohibited and I don’t see a grandfather clause. Then again I don’t see where it says they have to be turned in or destroyed.
-Risk Protection Orders. Some expert will have to go through this.
-Written threats to kill, or do bodily injury, conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism. Felony.
-School Safety Awareness Program. School Pre-Crime Stoppers. And it must have an App so students can report anonymously, gee what could go wrong with that? Because there are no petty grievances and bullshit in high school that will end up with a visit by cops. This idea was recommended by students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
-Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission. A 16 members to study when went wrong and ended up with the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and make recommendations.
-Office of Safe Schools. “The office shall serve as a central repository for best practices, training standards, and compliance oversight in all matters regarding school safety and security, including prevention efforts, intervention efforts, and emergency preparedness planning.”
-School Resource Officers are now known as Safe School Officer. Again the mandate is to have them in every school. More training dealing with kids with mental problems.
-School Marshal program, but only if the school district approves it. Soo that is pretty much dead in most counties.
-APPROPRIATION: $400,000,000.00

A lot of the other amendments were withdrawn. Some were shot down and here are some of them.

-Firearm Registration.
-Moratorium on the sales and yadda-yadda of “Assault Weapons”.
-Making murder “illegaler.”
-State-Issued permit to own grandfathered Evil Black Rifles.
-State-Issued permit to own grandfathered large-capacity magazines.
-Assault weapons prohibited within 5 miles of schools, colleges, or universities.
-Elimination of State Preemption.
-Unsecure firearms prohibited with children present including your weapon while you are carrying it.
-Facilitating a long gun to somebody under 21.
-Mental Health Check to Carry Concealed (This one was a very late addition to the cauldron)
-Assault Weapons Ban (Long and short editions)
– Making a primary county administration building not located within the courthouse a Gun Free Zone.

As usual you go to the bill and read it for yourself, do not take my word as final since IANAL.

My opinion has not changed: The bill must go down in flames ASAP.  Not even the School Marshal is worth it because I have the feeling it won’t be implemented much, if at all.

OK, I am done with this till Monday. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
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