Posted on 12/03/2018 5:00:36 AM PST by Jed Eckert
TALLAHASSEE Floridas newly elected agriculture commissioner is vowing to conduct a deep dive into the states concealed weapons permit program once she is sworn into office.
Nikki Fried, who appeared on South Florida news programs on Sunday, said she has already begun talking about possible changes to the program with employees in the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Her push to revamp the program comes amid a likely legislative battle over whether the program should be moved to a different state agency.
Earlier this year it was revealed that there were lapses in the program that is currently under the control of outgoing Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam. Fried, who is now the only statewide elected Democrat, will take office Jan. 8.
Fried, who says she has had a concealed weapons permit for five years, contends that gun rights groups such as the National Rifle Association have too much influence over the operation of the program.
This past week it was reported that NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer has suggested placing Republican Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis in charge of concealed weapons permits. Hammer told the Tampa Bay Times that Patronis would continue to run it properly. Democrats in the state Senate, meanwhile, have filed a bill to transfer the program to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Florida transferred control of the program in 2002 from the Department of State to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services at the urging of Hammer so that it was under an elected official.........(more at the link)
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Has there been a problem with cc permit holders in FL? Only one that I heard about was the thug trayvon killed by a ccw permit holder who is was beating....
Oh, please more threats from from the powerless.
By the powerless I assume you mean the new agriculture jerk?
I refer to those who constantly threaten people they don’t like and sound like idiots.
IOW..."guns for me but none for thee".There's a lot of that going around among today's Rats.
“Her push to revamp the program comes amid a likely legislative battle over whether the program should be moved to a different state agency.”
Do it. Hurry.
Hope so.
Strange story.
Dan Bongino mentioned this was the Dems’ target all along during the Florida mess. I think he lives there.
In michigan it’s under the state police.
CC
Women should never have been given the right to vote....
Yeah..! And you better bury your BIBLE back there also...
Astute you are... Perhaps you have sneaked a peek behind the wizards curtain.. :)
Soon there will be opium dens on the streets Of the good old USA... Just like Sweden..! And then, we too won't give a shit when the Foreigners take our country away from us...
Waiting for someone to give the word. Im not going to be the first.
Actually if it gets that bad I suspect the POTUS himself might give us the word.
I dont live in Florida
I live in a completely unAmerican state. Here the 2nd amendment means sport and hunting. We follow the rules to a point to have our weapons. As the laws have gotten more draconian a large group of people have stopped registering so called Assault weapons.
I will bolt from here one day but the time is not right.
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