Florida Senate OK’s Gun At Work Law - With Video
This is a victory for the NRA, they have been pushing this thing for a few years now…
TALLAHASSEE - The Republican-led state Senate handed a major election-year victory Wednesday to the National Rifle Association by approving a measure allowing some 500,000 Floridians with concealed-weapons permits to carry their guns to work.
In South Florida the reaction was mixed, with business owners expressing concern and gun owners declaring victory. The measure bars employers from banning guns on their premises, provided workers hold concealed-weapons permits and leave the guns locked in their cars.
Republican Gov. Charlie Crist said he will have no problem signing the measure into law.
“The Second Amendment is very important,” Crist said of the U.S. constitutional guarantee protecting the right to bear arms. “I understand there are competing interests … but people being protected is most important to me.”
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The 26-13 Senate vote broke along party lines – as did the House vote a week earlier in approving the measure. Democrats in both chambers sided with business groups fiercely opposing the change.
The vote capped a three-year effort by the NRA, which deluged lawmakers with thousands of e-mails and letters. Just as it had the past two springs, the gun battle pushed Republicans into a political crosswind, forcing them to choose between two drivers of GOP politics: gun supporters and the business lobby.
(Sun-Sentinel)
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My Mom is one of those 500,000 but she doesn’t work so that isn’t an issue for her. She carries everywhere, in a discrete handbag with a holster hide in it.
April 10th, 2008 at 10:39 am
To The NRA:
April 10th, 2008 at 2:35 pmLocked in the car?!!!
I guess it’s a start. There’ll be a fatal shooting of a CC holder whose gun was locked in his car, and then we’ll see.
April 10th, 2008 at 3:55 pm