Florida Republicans Kill Open Carry Bill
BY Herschel Smith
11 months, 1 week ago
Florida House Speaker Paul Renner is shooting down any hopes of Florida becoming an open-carry state, at least for now.
During last Thursday’s remarks to reporters, Renner said while he supports the idea of open carry, it would be unlikely to see a law get passed this year.
“I’m a supporter of the Second Amendment across the board in many aspects,” said Renner. “There’s not an appetite in both chambers to get that done.”
Renner’s comments come after Rep. Mike Beltran, R-Riverview, filed legislation to make changes to the state’s current gun laws, including allowing people to openly carry firearms on college campuses.
“We always have to measure whether it’s worth the committee [and] House floor time to pass a bill that would be controversial that would take a lot of time, that we know is dead on arrival.”
The bill(HB 1619), would also allow guns to be carried in certain government buildings and at voting polls. The proposal comes just a year after the state made it legal for most Floridians to carry guns without a permit, as long as it’s concealed.
It was the first bill submitted when they came back into session. They had plenty of time to work on it. What a bunch of pusillanimous cowards and spiritless, lying scoundrels.
Cops are against it, and that would be enough for the bootlickers to stop the bill, but they enacted gun control in the wake of the Parkland shooting and they won’t reverse course now. They would be seen as the duplicitous punks they are. So along with NY, Hawaii, California and Illinois, the communists in Florida (you know, the “law and order conservatives”) have left it all in place and don’t even mind telling you they don’t care about it immediately after the bill was filed.
Here is more perspective.
On January 18, 2024 at 8:38 pm, Chris said:
Theater, alllllll Theater. And Yap’in.
Every. Single. Time.
On January 19, 2024 at 12:49 pm, Grunt said:
“I’m a supporter of the Second Amendment across the board in many aspects.
Yes but no.
Fucking politician
On January 19, 2024 at 4:00 pm, Latigo Morgan said:
It was “conservative” shooting instructors and ranges who killed Constitutional Carry in my state. The dimunist governor was even going to sign it if it made it to his desk.
The reason the killed it? It would cause them to lose money for concealed carry classes.