Local Governments Scramble to Repeal Gun Restrictions

Sarasota Herald-Tribune ^ | 9/20/11 | Zac Anderson

[epow]

Any of Florida's parks, city halls and libraries — once gun-free zones — will soon be forced to allow firearms under a state-led effort to curtail gun restrictions imposed by local governments.

Facts:

GUN ORDINANCES UP FOR REPEAL

City of Sarasota

Law allowing city manager to suspend firearm sales during emergencies

Sarasota County

Laws prohibiting hunting from roads and bridges, allowing the suspension of firearm sales during a riot, requiring pawn shops to keep records of firearms

Manatee County

Laws requiring gun ranges to ensure stray bullets stay within their property, prohibiting discharge of firearms on unpaved public roads and regulating concealed weapons

City of Longboat Key

Law banning discharge of firearms within city limits

City of North Port

Law banning discharge of firearms in city limits

City and county officials across the state are scrambling to undo local ordinances restricting firearms before a new state law takes effect Oct. 1. The law imposes personal fines of up to $5,000 for local officials who overreach state gun regulations.

[Nebr FAL owner]

Regarding doctors asking about your guns ,ask what the doctors training with regard to firearms ie Gunsite,Thunder Ranch , Armed forces instructor,etc .If the answer is not to your satisfaction ask the doctor if his/her malpractice insurance carrier knows that they are practicing beyond their scope of practice & would they like you to tel them. Shuts the croaker up in a heartbeat.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

People who have not been active in the RKBA battle aren't likely to be aware of how the anti gunners work.

They will use every dirty sneaky tactic they can think of.

[Lurker]

Frigging brilliant.

[21twelve]

Our kids were not left alone with a doctor until the age of ten or so. And then they were instructed about improper acts, questions, etc.

The pedetrician did ask my wife about guns once with our first child. My wife told him that was none of his business. I thought about quitting him - but he is REALLY good. And figure it is a standard question. He never brought it up again.

[George from New England]

‘Left alone’ these days is with nurse and doctor, always two.

Question can be asked there too.

[21twelve]

Oh - I meant “left alone” without mom or dad when they were young.

They still are not to open the door except for a few trusted neighbors. That includes police officers.

[epow]

People who have not been active in the RKBA battle aren't likely to be aware of how the anti gunners work. They will use every dirty sneaky tactic they can think of.

I can certainly agree with that.

When I lived in FL I worked off and on with a pro-gun group that lobbied the state legislature, the majority of which (the legislature that is) at that time tended to lean toward an anti-2nd Amendment rights stance. I soon discovered that our anti-gun opponents in that fight were capable of employing any tactic whether legal or illegal, fair or foul, truth or bald-faced lie, that they thought might help them reach their goal of convincing the state's lawmakers that it was necessary to impose more and stricter gun control laws on the people in order for FL to reverse it's rapidly rising murder rate. It was a close contest in the early 1980s but we finally won out against the antis and the oppressive laws they wanted were rejected by the FL legislature.

And to top that off, later in that decade, 1986 IIRC, our earlier efforts were rewarded when a FL legislature more favorable to 2nd Amendment rights passed one of the first, if not THE first, shall-issue concealed carry laws in the nation. FL's liberal Democrat governor at that time, Bob Graham, vetoed the bill, however Republican governor Bob Martinez signed an even better bill into law the following year.

Enactment of FL's CCW law seems to have inspired similar efforts by pro-gun orgs in many other states to have shall-issue CC laws enacted in their states. Not too long after FL's law was enacted several of those states also enacted shall-issue CCW laws, and today only Obama's home state IL totally bans concealed or open carry. Some of those CCW laws were enacted at least partially as a result of the success of FL's law at reducing FL's murder rate by approximately 25% within only a couple of years following it's enactment IIRC.

My role in that successful endeavor was ridiculously minuscule and unimportant compared to that of most other participants. But even so I like to think that I contributed at least a microscopically tiny bit to the success of that ad hoc group's fight against well organized and liberally funded anti-gunners. Patting one's self on the back for having participated to even a very, very small extent in the achievement of a worthy objective is quite uncomfortable, and also very much inappropriate in my particular case. But OTOH it shows that even an extremely small amount of effort such as that which I expended can help make a difference in our fight for full restoration of our Constitutionally guaranteed rights in every aspect of life and government that the grand old document touches on.