HB-129 Possession/Guns/Cars/Parking Lots Needs Your Help In Florida!

ALERT!! TAKE ACTION NOW *** HB-129 Possession/Guns/Cars/Parking Lots

DATE:         May 1, 2006

TO:             USF & NRA Members and Friends

FROM:        Marion P. Hammer

                   NRA Past President

                   Executive Director Unified Sportsmen of Florida

SUBJECT: HB-129 Protect Possession of Firearms in Vehicles in Parking Lots

We are working hard to get HB-129 to the House floor for passage and need your help contacting members of the House.

Every gun owner who comes to Florida as a tourist, visitor, or on business needs to wade into this fight to protect the right to have a firearm in your vehicle for self-defense and other lawful purposes.  This right belongs to ALL gun owners everywhere -- not just those who live in Florida.

HELP protect the rights of all Floridians, out of state visitors, and tourists who visit our state by motor vehicle and who carry firearms in their vehicles for protection and other lawful purposes.

Some Florida businesses are trying to ban guns in cars.  They are violating the constitutional rights of gun owners and Florida law.  HB-129 protects your right to have a gun in your car for lawful purposes. 

Please immediately send email to members of the HOUSE and URGE THEM TO SUPPORT HB-129 by Representative Dennis Baxley.

(Below is a list of the email addresses of those you need to contact)

IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR EMAIL PUT: 

SUPPORT HB-129 - Protect Possession of Firearms in Vehicles/Parking Lots

(To send one email to all committee members at the same time, block or highlight the entire list and then copy and paste the block into the address section of the email.)

HOUSE MEMBERS WHO NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU:

SANDY.ADAMS@myfloridahouse.gov

BOB.ALLEN@myfloridahouse.gov

THAD.ALTMAN@myfloridahouse.gov

KEVIN.AMBLER@myfloridahouse.gov

TOM.ANDERSON@myfloridahouse.gov

RALPH.ARZA@myfloridahouse.gov

FRANK.ATTKISSON@myfloridahouse.gov

GUSTAVO.BARREIRO@myfloridahouse.gov

DENNIS.BAXLEY@myfloridahouse.gov

AARON.BEAN@myfloridahouse.gov

ALLAN.BENSE@myfloridahouse.gov

HOLLY.BENSON@myfloridahouse.gov

KIM.BERFIELD@myfloridahouse.gov

GUS.BILIRAKIS@myfloridahouse.gov

ELLYN.BOGDANOFF@myfloridahouse.gov

MARTY.BOWEN@myfloridahouse.gov

MARY.BRANDENBURG@myfloridahouse.gov

DONALD.BROWN@myfloridahouse.gov

FRED.BRUMMER@myfloridahouse.gov

DEAN.CANNON@myfloridahouse.gov

JENNIFER.CARROLL@myfloridahouse.gov

DONNA.CLARKE@myfloridahouse.gov

MARTI.COLEY@myfloridahouse.gov

LARRY.CRETUL@myfloridahouse.gov

FAYE.CULP@myfloridahouse.gov

DON.DAVIS@myfloridahouse.gov

MIKE.DAVIS@myfloridahouse.gov

CHARLES.DEAN@myfloridahouse.gov

NANCY.DETERT@myfloridahouse.gov

CARL.DOMINO@myfloridahouse.gov

GREG.EVERS@myfloridahouse.gov

FRANK.FARKAS@myfloridahouse.gov

BILL.GALVANO@myfloridahouse.gov

RENE.GARCIA@myfloridahouse.gov

ANDY.GARDINER@myfloridahouse.gov

HUGH.GIBSON@myfloridahouse.gov

RICH.GLORIOSO@myfloridahouse.gov

SUSAN.GOLDSTEIN@myfloridahouse.gov

DUDLEY.GOODLETTE@myfloridahouse.gov

KEN.GOTTLIEB@myfloridahouse.gov

MICHAEL.GRANT@myfloridahouse.gov

DENISE.GRIMSLEY@myfloridahouse.gov

GAYLE.HARRELL@myfloridahouse.gov

ADAM.HASNER@myfloridahouse.gov

ALAN.HAYS@myfloridahouse.gov

ED.HOMAN@myfloridahouse.gov

DOROTHY.HUKILL@myfloridahouse.gov

RANDY.JOHNSON@myfloridahouse.gov

STAN.JORDAN@myfloridahouse.gov

WILL.KENDRICK@myfloridahouse.gov

JEFF.KOTTKAMP@myfloridahouse.gov

DICK.KRAVITZ@myfloridahouse.gov

PAIGE.KREEGEL@myfloridahouse.gov

BRUCE.KYLE@myfloridahouse.gov

JOHN.LEGG@myfloridahouse.gov

KEN.LITTLEFIELD@myfloridahouse.gov

MARCELO.LLORENTE@myfloridahouse.gov

CARLOS.LOPEZ-CANTERA@myfloridahouse.gov

MARK.MAHON@myfloridahouse.gov

STAN.MAYFIELD@myfloridahouse.gov

SHERI.MCINVALE@myfloridahouse.gov

DAVID.MEALOR@myfloridahouse.gov

DAVE.MURZIN@myfloridahouse.gov

MITCH.NEEDELMAN@myfloridahouse.gov

JOE.NEGRON@myfloridahouse.gov

PAT.PATTERSON@myfloridahouse.gov

JOE.PICKENS@myfloridahouse.gov

JC.PLANAS@myfloridahouse.gov

RALPH.POPPELL@myfloridahouse.gov

BILL.PROCTOR@myfloridahouse.gov

JOHN.QUINONES@myfloridahouse.gov

RON.REAGAN@myfloridahouse.gov

EVERETT.RICE@myfloridahouse.gov

DAVID.RIVERA@myfloridahouse.gov

JULIO.ROBAINA@myfloridahouse.gov

DENNIS.ROSS@myfloridahouse.gov

MARCO.RUBIO@myfloridahouse.gov

DAVE.RUSSELL@myfloridahouse.gov

RAY.SANSOM@myfloridahouse.gov

DAVID.SIMMONS@myfloridahouse.gov

KEN.SORENSEN@myfloridahouse.gov

DWIGHT.STANSEL@myfloridahouse.gov

JOHN.STARGEL@myfloridahouse.gov

TREY.TRAVIESA@myfloridahouse.gov

BAXTER.TROUTMAN@myfloridahouse.gov

LESLIE.WATERS@myfloridahouse.gov

TRUDI.WILLIAMS@myfloridahouse.gov

JUAN.ZAPATA@myfloridahouse.gov

BACKGROUND:

HB-129 Protects your right to have a firearm in your vehicle for lawful purposes and to park your vehicle in parking lots.

Carrying firearms in a vehicle for hunting, target shooting, or protection of yourself and your family obviously means you can leave that firearm locked in the vehicle in a parking lot when you go grocery shopping, to the doctor's office, to the movie, to visit a sick friend in the hospital, to rent a movie, to the shoe store or anywhere else normal people travel to conduct business.

Florida law, the U.S. Constitution, and the Florida Constitution clearly and unequivocally give law-abiding citizens to have firearms in their vehicles for lawful purposes.

How can anyone justify telling a woman who is being stalked that she can't have a firearm for protection? In many cases police tell these women to get a gun for protection because police can't be there to protect her -- and calling 911 is nothing more than government sponsored dial-a-prayer.

A business owner or manager has no more right to say you can't have a firearm in your private vehicle than they have a right to say you can't have a pair of sun glasses, an umbrella, a Bible or a baby seat.

Such an anti-gun political exercise is not good business sense. They want your money but don't respect your rights.

Businesses are not allowed to discriminate against employees and customers because of race, religion, political party, color of eyes, hair or weight.  And they certainly can't discriminate because of the exercise of lawful self-defense.  Make no mistake, these gun ban policies are blatant discrimination against people who chose to exercise a constitutional right and take responsibility for their own safety.