FL HB 45 a good thing

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http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-orlando/florida-house-bill-45-aims-to-protect-florida-gun-owners



Florida House Bill 45 aims to protect Florida gun owners
December 8th, 2010 12:09 pm ET
By Sean Caranna, Orlando Gun Rights Examiner

Here in Central Florida, there are hundreds of local firearms ordinances on the books despite the state’s 1987 preemption statute. These laws continue to exist because, as previously reported here, Florida community leaders have been willfully ignoring state firearms laws by passing and attempting to enforce local laws that are preempted by the state.

Gun rights advocates have been pressuring counties and cities throughout the state to come in to compliance with state law for years but have had only marginal success. The few cases that have been filed on preemption grounds have been highly successful in forcing compliance but the victories have come at heavy expense. Unlike most laws, there is no penalty for violating the firearms preemption statute. Attorney’s fees, court costs, other expenses can not be recovered once a preemption case is successful.

Florida State House Representative Matt Gaetz aims to put real teeth in Florida’s firearms preemption law this year with House Bill 45. The bill would make it a 3rd degree felony for a lawmaker to knowingly skirt the state statute and provide for $5 million in fines. HB 45 also provides for attorney’s fees and payment of fines to an individual or organization that successfully sues to counter a preempted local regulation.

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1. Excellent! n/t

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

2. Laws limiting bureaucracy... I love it.