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Posted on 05/05/2025 5:10:32 AM PDT by V_TWIN
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The City of Jacksonville may have created an illegal gun registry.
That’s the claim of a prominent Republican city council member.
Only Action News Jax spoke with Councilman Nick Howland (R-Group 3 At-Large), who broke down what he’s learned about the alleged list of gun owners who have entered at least two city buildings.
It’s the same day Mayor Donna Deegan officially came into office.
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Councilman claims the City of Jacksonville created an illegal gun registry
By Jake Stofan, Action News Jax May 01, 2025 at 5:36 pm EDT JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The City of Jacksonville may have created an illegal gun registry.
That’s the claim of a prominent Republican city council member.
Only Action News Jax spoke with Councilman Nick Howland (R-Group 3 At-Large), who broke down what he’s learned about the alleged list of gun owners who have entered at least two city buildings.
Since July 1st, 2023, state law has prevented local governments from prohibiting legal gun owners from carrying concealed in government buildings.
It’s the same day Mayor Donna Deegan officially came into office.
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But Howland told Action News Jax he’s learned that same month, private security guards working the entrance of two city buildings allegedly began keeping a list of people who entered with firearms.
He claimed those alleged lists were kept at both City Hall and the Yates Building, which houses the Tax Collector and Property Appraiser’s Offices.
“They were asked to document their first name, last name, contact information and the type of firearm they were carrying,” said Howland.
Violations by local governments come with a civil penalty of up to $5 million and individuals who violate the law could be charged with a 3rd degree felony.
“In those notebooks for two years, that info has been gathered. Florida is a no-registry state. So, that is a clear violation of state law,” said Howland.
Howland claimed the State Attorney’s Office is investigating, but the State Attorney’s Office told us it cannot confirm whether an investigation has been opened.
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Sounds like a violation to me as described in the code.
Knowing what I know about that pos mayor it was probably her idea all along.
I’m from Jacksonville and boy has it changed!
Democrats are afraid of an armed population for one reason:
And not for the better either
Sounds like a great law suit.
Yes. She got in because 2 Republicans fought each other.
She used to be on the local news....til she and the weather guy (her current husband Tim Deegan) were caught porking in his van in the parking lot at work. Both were married to somebody else at the time.
Everybody in town knows it.
Yep. Me too. The place has been flooded with Yankees and Mexicans. They drive like complete A-holes. Drivers in Jax used to be polite...of course they used to be overwhelmingly Southerners......
“Both were married to somebody else at the time”
She was married to Dan Hicken the senior sports reporter at the same tv station....what a freakin’ soap opera......typical democrat behavior.
She’s so far over her head as mayor it’s ridiculous.
That city has fallen low.
The last Republican mayor ordered historical roadside markers destroyed for mentioning the War Between the States.
He was as bad as that woman who currently serves as mayor.
When I lived there it was the most Southern city in FL. Leftists moved in and took over.
She was a local news anchor, married to a local sportscaster when she was caught diddling a local TV weatherman in a TV station parking lot. That’s our Mayor (D-moron)
Yep. I remember “Picken with the Hickens”.
No surprise she is an fsu grad.....
She has absolutely NO experience in politics......her only claim is she is related to another democrat mayor by the name of Tommy Hazouri.
He’s the one that removed tolls from all the bridges.....when he did that drugs and crime poured into the Arlington area and now Arlington is a shithole.
Disgusting. I didn't know about that. Lemme guess, some of the Yankee carpetbaggers who moved down complained about it?
Lenny was just following Nikki Haley’s lead. Lenny was no conservative.
“Lemme guess, some of the Yankee carpetbaggers who moved down complained about it?”
Worse. Cowardly republican leadership in Jax tried to get out front of the national breakdown that was occurring in 2020. If I recall, the republican mayor was trying to get some fawning-over by the national media.
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