Ammoland is reporting that there's an out of state group representing themselves as Florida Gun Rights lobbying Florida gun owners by email. Personally, I haven't gotten one of these solicitations, but the source is Marion Hammer, former NRA president, and one of the gunnies' best lobbyists in the state.
Once again email is flooding to Florida gun owners from an entity calling itself “Florida Gun Rights” (FLGR) asking that gun owners send email to Florida Legislators about a nonexistent bill.The specifics about it being a bill seem to be a technicality (which is all that lawyers live for) because they go on to say,
These alerts are not coming from a grassroots group in Florida, their corporate documents clearly show their principal place of business is Colorado.Once again they are claiming there is a “Backyard Range Ban” bill. Make no mistake, there is NO SUCH BILL.
HB-41 adds a subsection (4) to existing law to prohibit the discharge of firearms in residential neighborhoods that have a density of one or more dwellings per acre.I could see how this could be construed to be a Backyard Range Ban bill, rather than an addition to existing law 790.15, but that's not the point. The point is that if you're going to donate to a Florida gun rights group, I'd personally rather donate to one that's really in Florida, not Colorado. It's why I'm a member of Florida Carry.
FLGR is not incorporated as a nonprofit Florida corporation. FLGR is registered as Florida LLC (normally a for-profit small business). Their single purpose seems to be conning you (regardless of your political party) into sending them money.The Ammoland article alleges that FLGR is a PO Box for NAGR, which appears to be the case according to the Update section of this article in a South Florida news service. I've given to NAGR in the past, but stopped doing so when it turned out that "nagger" was a pretty good descriptor. They may be a decent group, but they send a begging request once a day.
Yeah, I made the same mistake of kicking some $$ to NAGR a couple of years ago.
ReplyDeleteAnd I STILL get "ZOMG!!!!" emails from them begging for more.....
I got my NRA Life Membership for $500 through the instructor I help when his class sizes get too big, something that's been happening quite a bit since, oh, about 2008!
These people are the ones that screwed the vote in Colorado when they were trying to raise the magazine capacity from 15 to 30. They managed to piss enough legislators off with their antics that the bill went nowhere.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, no capacity restriction would have been better, but you get what you can today and keep fighting.
This morons are a frigging danger.
Thanks, Miguel. That's who I was thinking it was.
DeleteI know that there's appeal in being the "no compromise gun rights organization", but like you say Colorado gun owners almost got rid of over 90% of the painful restrictions except for these guys essentially blocking it. I don't like the restrictions either, but I can't see where saying I want fewer restrictions is bad. Yeah, it's not NO restrictions, but I can't see where it's better to live under draconian restrictions than getting them eased up.