OCDO Press Release - Senator Greg Ever’s Open Carry Bill is Not Enough!

OpenCarry.org ^ | February 16, 2011 | John Pierce

[majstoll]

OpenCarry.org

(A pro-gun Internet community of over 24,000 registered members)

For Immediate Release – February 15, 2011

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Senator Greg Ever’s Open Carry Bill is Not Enough

OpenCarry.org Calls on the Florida Senate Committee on Criminal Justice to Remove the License Requirement from the Open Carry Bill

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Next week the Florida Senate Committee on Criminal Justice will hold a hearing on Senator Greg Evers’ SB 234 which would decriminalize the open carry of properly holstered handguns in Florida. Unfortunately the bill merely allows open carry by those who possess a “Florida Concealed Weapon or Firearm License” or a similar state issued permit accepted by Florida.

“Our constitutional tradition does not tolerate licensing schemes to exercise fundamental rights,” says John Pierce, co-founder of OpenCarry.org, “so why should . . . "

[majstoll]

Time to let the committe know we want the open carry bill amended to remove the license requirement for open carry! Send emails to:

evers.greg.web@flsenate.gov dean.charles.web@flsenate.gov dockery.paula.web@flsenate.gov margolis.gwen.web@flsenate.gov smith.chris.web@flsenate.gov

SUBJECT: Remove license requirement to open carry in SB 234

Dear Senator,

This e-mail is to express my support for Senate Bill 234, but also to urge you to remove the license requirement to open carry.

Most states allow open carru without the need for a license. A license is not needed to exercise any other right in the Bill of Rights, so now's not the time to do this for the Second Amendment.

Sincerely,

[Skeez]

Virginia has unlicensed open carry.

[Dan Nunn]

Many states do, including Pennsylvania.

[2harddrive]

Vermont, Alaska, and Arizona allow open carry. Cali also does, but it must be UNLOADED, as I recall. The same is technically also true for Illinois, but you will be arrested there if you try it. Also arrested in Texas, except for rifles or shotguns, but there, unlike Illinois, you can at least GET a concealed carry license.

[Dan Nunn]

All the yellow states allow unrestricted open carry, and orange states with some restrictions. Green states require a license to open carry.

Seven states have no legal right to open carry, of which five of them have legislation moving to correct this infringement. Only New York and Illinois have no chance of permitting open carry in the near future.