It'a amazing to read, and awesome in it's simplicity. HB 733 proposes that any state employee or elected official who aids a federal officer or agency in enforcing a federal gun law that is not mirrored in state law, is guilty of a crime and will immediately be removed from office.
The text reads:
HB 733 2014
F L O R I D A H O U S E O F R E P R E S E N T A T I V E S
790.339 Federal infringement of Second Amendment rights prohibited.
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(1) Notwithstanding any provision of law, the State of Florida and its agencies, political subdivisions, constitutional officers, officials of its agencies and subdivisions, and their successors, or an employee of such an agency acting in his or her official capacity, or a corporation or person providing services to or on behalf of this state shall not, concerning any act, law, order, rule, or regulation, whether past, present, or future, of the Federal Government relating to a personal firearm or firearm accessory within this state that applies to a personal firearm or firearm accessory based on the design, features, or characteristics of the firearm or accessory:
(a) Enforce any such federal act, law, order, rule, or regulation.
(b) Provide material support to, participate with, or assist, in any form, any federal agency or employee engaged in the enforcement of any such federal act, law, order, rule, or regulation or any investigation pursuant to the enforcement of any such federal act, law, order, rule, or regulation.
(c) Use any state assets, state funds, or funds allocated by the state to local entities on or after the effective date of this act, in whole or in part, to engage in any activity that aids a federal agency, federal agent, or corporation providing services to the Federal Government in the enforcement of any such federal act, law, order, rule, or regulation or any investigation pursuant to the enforcement of any such federal act, law, order, rule, or regulation as these federal laws shall not be recognized by this state, are specifically rejected by this state, and shall be of no effect in this state.
An agent or employee of this state who knowingly violates subsection (1) shall be deemed to have resigned a commission from this state that he or she may possess, and his or her position or office shall be deemed vacant.
Section 5.
The Division of Law Revision and Information is directed to replace the phrase "the effective date of this act" wherever it occurs in this act with the date this act takes effect.
Section 6.
This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.
The NRA has taken a stance against this bill. The SAF is undecided, but may be on it's side. MY position is clear, I am 100% for it.
Which is why I need help. I've already started blogging in support of the law, and have spent a few hours contacting various reps to co-sponsor or delcare on-board on this, but we are going to need some serious phonework and calling to get this passed.
The man who penned it, State Representative Eagle has M Diaz, Tizenhagen, Huston, Mayfield, O'Toole, and Smith as co-sponsors, but it needs to be a LOT bigger before it hits committee.
Please, contact your reps and make them aware that there is support for this bill, and ask them to sign on to it. It's only three days old now, and if we get them fired up this early, it will carry more weight later as it gets a name. One reporter has already trashed it, and this is his reply to me when I contacted him declaring my support...
"Yeah, they're saying the same crap on my blog, but it's all traffic, so I love it, especially when they argue amongst themselves.
I'm also getting private kudos from some pols who will use the story for cover, if this abomination ever comes to a vote.
Our web editor is in heaven.
These 10th Amendment guys are nuts, and frankly, they've pissed me off.
Lee Williams
Reporter
Herald-Tribune Media Group
1741 Main Street, Sarasota, FL 34243
T: 941-361-4975
lee.williams@heraldtribune.com
www.heraldtribune.com"
So it has a hate fan already! An anti-gun fruitcake who needs to go back to journalism school.
Let's help this one go through!
Then, then we need to get serious about open carry.
The text reads:
HB 733 2014
F L O R I D A H O U S E O F R E P R E S E N T A T I V E S
790.339 Federal infringement of Second Amendment rights prohibited.
—
(1) Notwithstanding any provision of law, the State of Florida and its agencies, political subdivisions, constitutional officers, officials of its agencies and subdivisions, and their successors, or an employee of such an agency acting in his or her official capacity, or a corporation or person providing services to or on behalf of this state shall not, concerning any act, law, order, rule, or regulation, whether past, present, or future, of the Federal Government relating to a personal firearm or firearm accessory within this state that applies to a personal firearm or firearm accessory based on the design, features, or characteristics of the firearm or accessory:
(a) Enforce any such federal act, law, order, rule, or regulation.
(b) Provide material support to, participate with, or assist, in any form, any federal agency or employee engaged in the enforcement of any such federal act, law, order, rule, or regulation or any investigation pursuant to the enforcement of any such federal act, law, order, rule, or regulation.
(c) Use any state assets, state funds, or funds allocated by the state to local entities on or after the effective date of this act, in whole or in part, to engage in any activity that aids a federal agency, federal agent, or corporation providing services to the Federal Government in the enforcement of any such federal act, law, order, rule, or regulation or any investigation pursuant to the enforcement of any such federal act, law, order, rule, or regulation as these federal laws shall not be recognized by this state, are specifically rejected by this state, and shall be of no effect in this state.
An agent or employee of this state who knowingly violates subsection (1) shall be deemed to have resigned a commission from this state that he or she may possess, and his or her position or office shall be deemed vacant.
Section 5.
The Division of Law Revision and Information is directed to replace the phrase "the effective date of this act" wherever it occurs in this act with the date this act takes effect.
Section 6.
This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.
The NRA has taken a stance against this bill. The SAF is undecided, but may be on it's side. MY position is clear, I am 100% for it.
Which is why I need help. I've already started blogging in support of the law, and have spent a few hours contacting various reps to co-sponsor or delcare on-board on this, but we are going to need some serious phonework and calling to get this passed.
The man who penned it, State Representative Eagle has M Diaz, Tizenhagen, Huston, Mayfield, O'Toole, and Smith as co-sponsors, but it needs to be a LOT bigger before it hits committee.
Please, contact your reps and make them aware that there is support for this bill, and ask them to sign on to it. It's only three days old now, and if we get them fired up this early, it will carry more weight later as it gets a name. One reporter has already trashed it, and this is his reply to me when I contacted him declaring my support...
"Yeah, they're saying the same crap on my blog, but it's all traffic, so I love it, especially when they argue amongst themselves.
I'm also getting private kudos from some pols who will use the story for cover, if this abomination ever comes to a vote.
Our web editor is in heaven.
These 10th Amendment guys are nuts, and frankly, they've pissed me off.
Lee Williams
Reporter
Herald-Tribune Media Group
1741 Main Street, Sarasota, FL 34243
T: 941-361-4975
lee.williams@heraldtribune.com
www.heraldtribune.com"
So it has a hate fan already! An anti-gun fruitcake who needs to go back to journalism school.
Let's help this one go through!
Then, then we need to get serious about open carry.
