The second and third proposals are slippery slopes for abuse by the likes of the Pinellas County Sheriff’s office. The bill’s sponsors should consider revising the third proposal regarding immunity for officers conducting investigations to a limited immunity that can be challenged in a legal proceeding. In return, the association gets to keep the RAS criteria rather than having to meet PC criteria. This is the essence of legislative process. They should use other states’ experience as their leverage.
Rest assured that if these two are adopted they will indeed be abused by prosecutors and LEOs in the more progressive jurisdictions. No deal on these two. Let them go pound sand. We should instead be pushing for constitutional carry like Arizona and some other states have done.
2:Change "probable cause" to "reasonable suspicion" of a crime before stopping or investigating people openly carrying firearms
3:Including immunity for police officers conduct investigations allowed by law