Florida group offers free shotguns and says it finds takers

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Florida group offers free shotguns and says it finds takers

By Barbara Liston
ORLANDO, Florida | Thu Sep 26, 2013 6:53pm EDT

(Reuters) - Hundreds of Florida residents accepted an offer this week for a free shotgun, the director of the Florida branch of the Texas-based Armed Citizens Project.

A website for the group, which offered one free shotgun per household, said the project hopes to create "gun rich" zones in moderate to high crime areas in the United States to analyze what happens to the crime rate when a neighborhood is saturated with guns.

But Ron Ritter, director of the Florida branch, said guns would be distributed to all comers instead of being concentrated in a defined location. He said the group expects to begin distributing shotguns "in the next 10 days."

The group flooded a quiet Orlando neighborhood on Sunday with fliers about the free shotguns and ammunition to homeowners who pass a background check and take a firearms course.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/26/us-usa-florida-guns-idUSBRE98P1E220130926

[darkangel218]

1. There is nothing wrong with people legally owning shotguns.

[NYC_SKP]

2. I'm encouraged to learn that they have to take a class.

I hope that it includes comprehensive safety.

[darkangel218]

3. It usually does.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. VP Biden endorses them. Although I would personally refrain from his suggested employment of them.

[darkangel218]

5. Ahhh yah, shooting through the door

[Eleanors38]

10. Also known as the Maya Angelou stance.

[mwrguy]

6. it worked out great at the Navy Yard and in Aurora Colorado

Nope, nothing wrong there.

[darkangel218]

7. So lets ban cars too.

So many people could be saved!

[DonP]

8. Yeah they're both exactly the same

People with a single shot shotgun in their homes is exactly the same as a mentally deranged person committing multiple murders.

[ileus]

9. Finally someone willing to invest in the community.

True progress...people who care, helping people that are less fortunate.