Gun bills line up in Florida Legislature

[Jose Garcia]

A measure that would reduce the penalty for people who briefly display a firearm in public and make it a non-criminal offense has been filed in the House.

The proposal (HB 779), filed Friday by Rep. Neil Combee, R-Polk City, is identical to a bill (SB 646) filed by Senate Judiciary Chairman Greg Steube, R-Sarasota. Steube recently turned an omnibus gun measure (SB 140) into a series of bills.

Combee said his proposal would apply to people with concealed-weapons licenses. The proposal would change what is currently a second-degree misdemeanor charge — carrying a fine up to $500 and 60 days in jail — into a $25 noncriminal violation that can be paid to a county clerk of the court.

The proposal also would allow members of the state Cabinet — the attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner — to carry concealed weapons when unaccompanied by full-time Florida Department of Law Enforcement security.

more: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-nsf-gun-bills-20170213-story.html

[shenmue]

1. Can they just call it "wave a gun around"?

[forgotmylogin]

2. Just pass the "Do Whatever the Hell you Want With a Gun in Florida" law.

Or the "Until you Pull the Trigger, We Don't Give a Shit" statute.

[Fred Sanders]

3. So you can briefly, whatever that means, display a gun in public, to threaten someone I assume, and

you get a $25 fine?

If you wave a knife around I bet it is still far more serious in the mind of these insane gun worshippers. Only in America.