Posted on 01/28/2007 8:27:19 PM PST by VeniVidiVici
Florida has given concealed weapon licenses to hundreds of people who wouldn't have a chance of getting them in most other states because of their criminal histories. Courts have found them responsible for assaults, burglaries, sexual battery, drug possession, child molestation -- even homicide.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Plus, they couldn't even state an example of a permit holder who has committed a crime while holdinga permit.
Are there some folks who have permits that shouldn't have permits? More than likely. And the Tribune Corp are the ones who want to decide.
One last thing; a part of the article mentions legislation passed by the FL legislature that made previously public permit holder data private. This was in response to an Orlando TV station publishing names and addresses of Central Florida permit holders. Their reasoning was that the data was public and people ought to know.
Funny thing was, folks here and other boards around the net were outraged at this malicious attempt to intimidate permit holders.
It didn't take long for folks here and elsewhere to dig up "public information", tax records if you will, and post the names and addresses of the Orlando TV station GM and other employees.
Naturally, when the shoe is on the other foot the MSM recoils in fear so the permit data was almost immediately taken down. The rest is history. Of course, Tribune doesn't go into detail over this but you can tell that they hate permit holders privacy now trumpts their access to the data.
For those who want to stomach it, this is a four-part series sked to run thru Weds. I'm sure the rest will be just as bad as this.
Funny thing is I picked up today's paper to review it. I had recently decided that my knowledge of local news was lacking so I had planned to renew my 5-year defunct subscription to the Sentinel. Heck, I never made it off the front page before my blood was boiling again.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
This is ridiculout. my husband took months to straighten out a mess from 1970 to get his.... turned out he had been stopped and had beer in his car on a sunday in atlanta...they called it "controlled substance"....lol... i think he paid a fine, wasn't a felony, took months of phone calls between atlanta and tallahassee. they will probably link it back to the law that lets you protect yourself also.
Your most exalted citizens down there wouldn't have a chance of getting a license here in Maryland.
Argh. Let me clarify one thing; in Florida we only have "permits" for one thing and that is to carry concealed.
Rereading my post that wasn't clear so let me say again that the article is about FL citizens that have concealed weapons permits.
My buddy's getting rid of his 229 in .40 and a .357 barrel for $550. IT'S SO TEMPTING.
I think there were three shootings with rifles in Palm Beach County in 2006. As for the dopey police chief they quoted who thinks CCW puts guns in the hands of criminals, maybe he ought to try arresting a criminal instead of sucking up to the city council and inflating his pension.
Did you know that the reason you can personally own a machine gun in Broward County is because the sheriff got caught signing the transfers for his buddies, got sued, and now he has to sign them for anyone who asks? Everyone else in south Florida has to form a corporation or a living trust to go Class III, but in Fort Lauderdale, the machine gun owner actually benefits from corrupt law enforcement.
Okay, I read the whole thing and I think I get it - - some criminals are getting concealed carry permits. Other than that, I don't see what the point of the story is.... Surely the author's point can't be that if criminals are denied carry permits they will snap their fingers, say "aw shucks", and decline to carry a gun because that would be against the law? That can't be it, right?
I didn't know there was such a thing as reciprocity for carry permits.
IIRC the Utah permit is valid in something like 10 States.
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I know of seven FFLs in Palm Beach County and maybe ten in Broward. I've passed at least fifty golf courses in Palm Beach County, so I guess things like research and accuracy mean very little when there is an exciting liberal cause to promote and the democrats control the house again. There are a few other tabletop dealers, I have no way to know who they are. There are at least fifty golf courses in PB. Probably the paper included C&R FFLs without bothering to explain what those are. That is an intentional distortion of the truth and it is disgusting.
And the idea that a guy who was caught with 500 pounds of pot is going to obey a gun law is so absurd that only the dinosaur media could print it. These jerks caterwaul about how we have to forgive bloodthirsty killers when a death penalty is sentenced, but if a first offender is actually forgiven, well the libs at the local rag better get him before he buys a gun and votes republican.
There are approximatly 30 states that honor each others CCW permits. Each state usually has a web site regatding CCW permits and which states have reciprocity.
For instance traveling from Texas to NYC via Chicago, The only places I would not be legal are the only two places where I would probably have a real need. NYC and Chicago. I am exxagerating only slightly.
Wow! Thanks for the links. I have a Pennsylvania CC permit and it's nice to know where it's good.
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