OUR RIGHT-TO-CARRY IS UNDER ATTACK!

NRA - ILA ^ | April 29, 2008 | Marion P. Hammer

[neverdem]

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OUR RIGHT-TO-CARRY IS UNDER ATTACK!

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

DATE:       April 29, 2008
TO:           USF & NRA Member and Friends
FROM:      Marion P. Hammer
                 USF Executive Director
                 NRA Past President

In the fight for your firearms freedom, the Florida Chamber of Commerce and the Florida Retail Federation were determined to kill Florida's HB503, the bill that protects your right to keep a firearm in your vehicle for personal protection. They even threatened the Legislature and the Governor with a lawsuit. The Legislature was not intimidated -- they passed the bill. Governor Charlie Crist (R) was not intimidated -- he signed it into law. They stood up for you. They stood up for law-abiding gun owners and your self-defense rights against the big business bullies that were trying to eliminate them.

Six days after Governor Crist signed the bill into law, the Florida Chamber of Commerce and the Florida Retail Federation rushed into federal court and filed a frivolous lawsuit to try to have the new law overturned. They had already bragged to the media that they would spend huge amounts of money to fight to negate your constitutional and statutory rights.

On April 16 the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported: "The Florida Chamber of Commerce and the Florida Retail Federation are ready to pay a legal tab they expect to total at least $250,000 to counter what they term an assault on private property rights."

They are relying on Disney, Publix, Walmart and other anti-gun corporate giants to fund their assault on the Legislature, Governor Crist, and on our right-to-carry.

We need your help to raise the money to fight this blatant attack on you and your right to protect yourself and your family. 

PLEASE send a contribution TODAY.  No matter where you live.  No matter what city, what county, what state -- this is a fight that affects all of us.  Right-to-carry laws are meaningless if corporate bullies are allowed to eliminate them on a whim.

Click here to send a contribution today.

 Please continue to check www.NRAILA.org for updates on this important issue.

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Find this item at: http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3880

[neverdem]

IIRC, Oklahoma passed a law like Florida just passed, and it's being challenged in the Denver Federal Circuit Court. Maybe the Supreme Court will hear it next term?

[MtnClimber]

When I was in high school in Florida I worked for Publix. Shame on them!!!!!

[Domandred]

I could go either way on this one honestly. Yes I believe in the right to keep and bears arms, but equally to that I also believe in property owners rights as well.

Then when your talking about a parking lot then whose rights have the trump card? The car owner or the lot owners?

I think my head would explode if I had to vote one way or the other on it.

[matthew fuller]

"Then when your talking about a parking lot then whose rights have the trump card? The car owner or the lot owners? "

Try looking at it like this: If, for whatever reason, illicit drugs/marijauna were found in your car, in your employer's parking lot, guess who's in trouble? You or your employer? I believe that it's already been decided legally that the area of the interior of the car, including the trunk, is your area of responsibility.

[goldstategop]

Its time to push back. Corporate America will wish it had kept its hands off Florida's gun owners!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Fichori]

"I could go either way on this one honestly. Yes I believe in the right to keep and bears arms, but equally to that I also believe in property owners rights as well.

Then when your talking about a parking lot then whose rights have the trump card? The car owner or the lot owners?

I think my head would explode if I had to vote one way or the other on it."

I think the [simplified] question is, do you want to be required to leave any firearms at home to go get gas at the corner station.

Or, do you want to be able to be armed while driving to work, and have the ability to lock your weapon in your car while working.

etc., etc.

[VeniVidiVici]

Florida Chamber members who suppor the lawsuit and overturning of the legislation:

ABB Inc.
• LTC Consulting, Inc.
• American Bar Association
• Manatee Glens Corporation
• American Society for Industrial Security
• Members First Credit Union of Florida
• Atlantic Scientific Corp.
• Palm Beach County Chapter of Risk & Insurance Management Society (RIMS)
• Baptist Health Care • Pricesmart, Inc.
• Bulova Technologies EMS, LLC • Richards Paint Mfg. Co., Inc.
• Carr Riggs & Ingram LLC
• Risk & Insurance Management Society of Palm Beach County
• Central Florida Human Resource Association
• Sarasota-Manatee Human Resources Association
• Coastal Mechanical Services
• Sea Pines Rehab Hospital
• Florida Chamber of Commerce
South Florida Hospital Association
• Florida Retail Federation
• Southwest Florida Water Management District
• Healthsouth
• Spectrum Microwave, Inc.
• HR Florida State Council of the Society for Human Resource Management
• Voyager Business Concepts, Inc.
• Kitchen & Bath Center
• Webster University
• Len-Tram, Inc.
• Wilson Technology Group, Inc.
• W.S. Badcock Corporation

[Neidermeyer]

Your analogy is the clearest example I’ve heard ,, your car is your property and an extension of your home.

[rellimpank]

—excellent analogy—

[Fawn]

I can understand why the American Board Association supports this...but can’t figure out the others.

[Joe Brower]

Check out post# 4.

Florida Freeper

[bill1952]

> your car is your property and an extension of your home.

This should be a slam dunk.
SCOTUS has already so ruled, and that is why a LE officer needs a warrant to search your car.

For it to rule otherwise, it might in fact, overrule itself on that ruling, and that is certainly something that they will avoid if at all possible.

I can see a way or two around that, but it would be a pretty convoluted ruling.

[sport]

Find out who is a member of the Florida Chamber of Commerence and write them a letter stating that you will no longer patronize them. And you should cancel your newspaper subscription if you subscribe.

Being hit in the wallet is the only language these types understand.

My self, I stopped attending movies, buying newspapers, renting movies and any other thing that gave the people who wanted to destroy me ammunition to work with.

In other words I stopped letting them use my money to hurt me.

[2harddrive]

Those businesses have NO MORE right to ban guns than they have to ban BLACKS. Period. They LOST those rights with the Civil Rights laws of the 1960’s. They need to grow up.

[floriduh voter]

Should any of those businesses find themselves face to face with a disgruntled employee or a spurned lover, they would be powerless to defend themselves. Bad guys never obey laws but responsible gun owners do.

[George from New England]

Can anyone find a listing of the members of the Florida Chamber? I couldn’t.

Please post the link here.