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More Ratings To Help You Vote! Our friends over at Gunowners of America have released their ratings for congressional candidates. You can check them out by clicking here. Posted on October 10, 2008 in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: election, freedom, GOA, guns Do They Make The Grade? To say that this election is important to gun owners and freedom-loving Americans would be a HUGE understatement. The stakes are enormously high, and you need to be fully informed. For up-to-the-minute campaign information, including grades on the candidates, I suggest you stop by the NRA-Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) website, www.NRAPVF.org. Do it now! Posted on October 09, 2008 in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: election, freedom, guns, NRA, politics Sarah Palin Rocks Today's post doesn't need my words ... just the image below. Posted on August 30, 2008 in Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: mccain, nra, palin, politics, veep Federal Judge Hands Huge Defeat to Florida Business Lobby on "Guns-at-Work" law The Florida Chamber of Commerce and The Florida Retail Federation argued for three years that business owners had an absolute right to control their employees. That's why they kept calling it the "take-your-guns-to-work" legislation. They claimed they could search employee vehicles and ban firearms from those vehicles in the employer's parking lot. They claimed businesses didn't care if customers had guns in cars, they only cared about their right to control employees. When the legislature passed the law protecting the rights of workers, The Florida Chamber of Commerce and the Florida Retail Federation filed a lawsuit in federal court asking the Court to throw out the law.They argued that the law requiring businesses to allow guns in vehicles in their parking lots constituted an unconstitutional "taking" of their property. In court, the federal judge ruled against them – THEY LOST.They argued that OSHA regulations require them to provide a safe work environment for their workers, which required them to bans guns in parking lots to comply with OSHA requirements. In court, the federal judge ruled against them – THEY LOST.They argued that, as employers, they had an absolute right to control the conduct of their employees and could ban guns from employee vehicles in company parking lots while employees were at work. In court, the federal judge ruled against them – THEY LOST.Those are the three points argued by the Chamber and the Retail Federation. THEY LOST ON ALL THREE POINTS..At the hearing and in his ruling, the judge complained about language drafted by the legislature saying that it doesn't give businesses clear guidance on whether the laws allows business owners to ban customers from having guns in their cars in parking lots. Rather that clear up the confusion according to the intent of the legislature, he ruled that businesses can prohibit customers from keeping guns in their in the parking lot.CURRENT STATUS:The judge upheld the new NRA-supported law. If a business has a gun ban policy, employees who possess a valid Concealed Weapons License are exempt from the gun ban policy and cannot be fired for exercising their gun rights.If a business has a gun ban policy and no employee has a valid CW license, then that business can also ban customers from having guns locked in their vehicles in the parking lot while they shop or conduct business.A business may not search vehicles to see if a person has a firearm; may not ask if a person has a firearm in the vehicle; may not ask if a person has a CW license.PRACTICAL EFFECT:Before the law passed, employees had no protection from anti-gun employers. They had no recourse. They had to give up their firearm and self-defense rights or be fired. They now have protection. WORKERS WON – BUSINESS LOBBY LOSTDue to the judge's ruling based on inartful language, business owners can post signs notifying customers that they are prohibited from having firearms locked in their vehicles while in the parking lots. CUSTOMERS DON'T HAVE TO PATRONIZE A BUSINESS THAT DOESN'T RESPECT THEIR RIGHT TO KEEP A GUN IN THEIR CAR – THEY CAN SPEND THEIR MONEY ELSEWHERE – CUSTOMERS WIN – BUSINESS LOSESSpokespersons for the Florida Chamber and the Florida Retail Federation are claiming victory, praising the judge for ruling that businesses can keep customers from having firearms in their vehicles in parking lots. It remains to be seen if business owners will agree that they won anything. They probably wish the Florida Chamber and the Florida Retail Federation would just shut up and quit alienating customers.Our position is: Big Business lost. The People won. Analysis provided by the United Sportsmen of Florida Posted on July 30, 2008 in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Florida’s Attorney General Taking Complaints of Rights Violations Under New Gun Law! A spokeswoman for Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum has said that individuals can file complaints with the Attorney General’s office if their right to have a firearm, locked in their privately owned vehicle in a parking lot, for self-protection and other lawful purposes is being violated by a business. To file a complaint, please contact the Attorney General’s office by phone at 866-966-7226 or click here. Attorney General McCollum can be reached via email at ag.mccollum@myfloridalegal.com.To view a news article by WMBB in Panama City, please click here. Posted on July 09, 2008 in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Disney Corp. Fires Security Guard As you may have heard, a Disney security guard was suspended on Friday, July 4 for not allowing his private vehicle to be searched for a firearm. He had previously stated publicly that he would stand his ground on the issue, after the new law went into effect in Florida on July 1.This week, on Monday, July 7, the security guard was fired for exercising his Second Amendment and self-defense rights. Click here to read the Orlando Sentinel's report. Posted on July 09, 2008 in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: disney, florida, second amendment Ratting out the mouse: Disney thumbs nose at new gun law The Unified Sportsmen of Florida (USF) have reported the following. Considering the specifics of the law that have just taken effect, this is amazing!We (USF) have received the following memo from numerous sources. It was sent out by Disney to Disney employees. Disneyis a prime offender when it comes to firing employees for exercisingSecond Amendment rights. There has never been any intention to exemptany part of Disney from the new law. We thought you'd like to seesuch arrogance. ----- Original Message ----- From: WDW NewsRoom To: #WDW X Corporate Executive Cast - Florida; #WDW X Walt Disney Parksand Resorts Vice Presidents; #WDW X Walt Disney Parks and ResortsDirectors; #WDW X Walt Disney Parks and Resorts General Managers Sent: Fri Jun 27 XXXXXXX 2008 Subject: Florida's Guns-At-Work Legislation Below is a memo regarding the Florida Guns-at-Work law,effective July 1, 2008. Please share verbally with your teams, asappropriate. **************************************************************** To: Florida-site Executives Date: June 27, 2008 From: Shannon McAleavey, Senior Vice President Public Affairs Subject: Florida's Guns-at-Work Legislation ______________________________________________________ On July 1, a new Florida law will go into effect that will allow employees with a conceal-and-carry permit to have a weapon in their vehicle at their place of employment. This law does not apply to Walt Disney World Co. owned and leased properties due to an exemption. This includes all theme parks, resorts, theme park and resort parking lots, Cast Member parking lots, administrative offices across the Walt Disney World(r) Resort, Downtown Disney(r), Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex, hotels on Hotel Plaza Boulevard, Celebration and the Disney Reservation Centers (Orlando and Tampa). However, the law will apply to property owned by Reedy Creek Improvement District, Disney's Vero Beach Resort, the Disney Cruise Line Crew Member parking lot, the La Quinta warehouse on Orange Blossom Trail and Disney-owned liquidation stores off property. Because this is a Florida law, it also does not apply to Disney's Hilton Head Island Resort. Cast members will continue to be prohibited from removing a weapon from their vehicle while at work. All Cast Members must comply with the gun policies in effect at the location they are visiting, regardless of where they work. For example, Disney's Vero Beach Cast Members must comply with the gun policies at a Walt Disney World Co. theme park when visiting that location. Walt Disney World Co. continues to maintain a zero tolerance policy for guns and workplace violence. Possession of dangerous or unauthorized materials such as explosives, firearms, ammunition, weapons or other similar items on Walt Disney World Co. owned or leased property is grounds for termination (as outlined in the Employee Policy Manual). A lawsuit filed by the Florida Chamber of Commerce and Florida Retail Federation to repeal the law is under review, and we are hopeful it will be overturned by mid-July. We support the ongoing efforts of the Florida Chamber of Commerce and the Florida Retail Federation to challenge the legislation. The safety of our Cast and Guests is our top priority. Please encourage your teams to practice safe behaviors at any location. In an emergency, Cast Members should dial 911. If a gun is seen or suspected to be at any location, Cast Members should immediately contact their local Human Resources representative or Walt Disney World Security at x1990 or 407-XXX-XXXX. Thanks for your support in verbally sharing this information with your teams. I will update you when a final ruling is made in the lawsuit. Posted on July 01, 2008 in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) Guns In Parking Lots Law Takes Effect TODAY, July 1st in Florida In the sunshine state today, Florida HB-503 by Rep. Greg Evers and Sen. Durell Peaden takes effect. Officially, HB-503 is known as the "Preservation & Protection of the Right to Keep & Bear Arms in Motor Vehicles Act of 2008," even though elements of the business community continue to call it the Guns at Work Law.The new law protects existing constitutional and statutory rights. Law-abiding gun owners can continueto have firearms in their private vehicles, for self-defense and otherlawful purposes without fear of punitive actions against them byanti-gun businesses and employers. Under the new law, any business or employer who violates theconstitutional and statutory right of customers or employees, to havefirearms locked in their private vehicles, can now be punished.ALSO, under the new law, business owners will benefit from immunity from liability if guns stored in vehicles in the businesses parking lot are used to cause harm on the business property.THE LAW APPLIES TO ALL BUSINESSES & ALL CUSTOMERS & EMPLOYEESThe law covers ALL employers and businesses. The Legislature passedthe law and Governor Crist signed it into law to protect the right ofALL law-abiding citizens to protect themselves. The law requires employees who park in their employer'sparking lot to have a concealed weapons license in order to be exemptfrom a policy that prohibits employees having guns -- IF THEIR EMPLOYERHAS SUCH A POLICY. Customers and invitees are not required to have concealedweapons licenses in order to have firearms in their vehicles when theypark their vehicles in business parking lots.The legislation does not prohibit any employer from having a policythat barrs employees from having guns on the employer's property. Itmerely exempts employees, who have a concealed weapons license, fromthe policy as it relates to having a gun locked in a private vehicle inthe parking lot. Employees who do not have concealed weapons licensesare subject to an employers anti-gun, gun ban policy.Nothing in the law allows an employer/business owner/business managerto prohibit customers or invitees from having firearms locked in theirprivate vehicles in a parking lot. In fact, the law specifically stopsany such action against customers and invitees. The ONLY people who can be prohibited from having legal firearmslawfully stored in a car in a parking lot, are employees who do nothave concealed weapons licenses and who work for an employer that has agun ban POLICY. The US Supreme Court has just ruled that Second Amendment rights areindividual rights possessed by all Americans and are not connected tothe militia. The US Supreme Court has also just ruled that, self-defense against confrontations is central to the Second Amendment. That is exactly what this law is all about: preserving and protectingyour individual right to have and carry (keep and bear) firearms inyour vehicle for self-defense against attackers and for other lawfulpurposes. AND to provide penalties to stop anti-gun businesses fromviolating those rights.While the law does not provide new rights for gun owners, IT DOESPROVIDE NEW BENEFITS FOR BUSINESSES. Yesterday, business owners had noimmunity from liability if a firearm stored in a vehicle in thebusiness parking lot was used to cause harm on the business property. TODAY, they do have immunity. To view or download a copy of new law go here:http://www.flsenate.gov/data/session/2008/House/bills/billtext/pdf/h050303er.pdf Posted on July 01, 2008 in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: Florida, guns NRA Files Second Amendment Lawsuits Following up on last week’s Supreme Court ruling that the Second Amendment protects a private right to possess firearms that is not limited to militia service, the National Rifle Association (NRA) filed five lawsuits challenging local gun bans in San Francisco, and in Chicago and several of its suburbs.“The Supreme Court held yesterday that the Second Amendment right is exercised individually and belongs to all Americans,” said NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox. “These lawsuits will ensure that state and local governments hear those words.”The San Francisco lawsuit challenges a local ordinance and lease provisions that prohibit possession of guns by residents of public housing in San Francisco. NRA is joined in that suit by the California Rifle and Pistol Association and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.The Chicago case challenges a handgun ban nearly identical to the law struck down yesterday in Washington, D.C. The other Illinois suits challenge handgun bans in the suburban towns of Evanston, Morton Grove, and Oak Park.All five suits raise the issue of the application of the Second Amendment against the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, known in constitutional law as “incorporation.” Because Washington, D.C. is not a state, incorporation was not specifically addressed in yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, but the decision did repeatedly equate the Second Amendment to the First and Fourth Amendments, which have applied to the states for 80 years.“In Washington, D.C. or in any state, whether you live in the housing projects or a high end suburb, you have the right to defend yourself and your family at home,” Cox concluded. “These laws all deny that right, and NRA will not rest until they are all struck down.” Posted on July 01, 2008 in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: NRA, pro-gun, second amendment The Heller Decision and the Presidential Election Two days have passed since the Supreme Courts decision which upheld the Second Amendment as an individual right ... and the new continues. I'll address some of the already-filed lawsuits in other posts. For now, let's take a look at how the decision changes things for Republicans and Democrats this fall.Those on the anti-gun side seem to think that the validation of an individual right takes away any political hay that our side might try to make. However, it's already clear that the National Rifle Association (NRA) and other gun rights groups think otherwise.The NRA has not stopped talking about the decision, and it appears they plan to continue on this track. The belief is that by highlighting the case, gun owners will become motivated to help eliminate other bans in existence around the country. The idea is that this would further clarify the positions of the anti-gun politicians around the country (mostly democrats ... but certainly not all).There's a good piece posted at TheHill.com that takes a look the GOP's plan to keep gun rights front and center. Check it out:GOP hopes to keep guns in spotlight Posted on June 28, 2008 in Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Technorati Tags: anti-gun SCOTUS, democrats, election, NRA, pro-gun, republicans Next »     Enter your email address:Delivered by FeedBurner var _sttoolbar = {}stTypePad.init('http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&style=default&publisher=34547fe3-bf97-41cd-be7c-4de48bbecb33');
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