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One bill in the FL legislature this session will strengthen the state-level preemption of firearms regulation by giving it teeth. Under current law, counties and municipalities are not allowed to enact any regulation of firearms or ammunition. However, many cities still do, because it takes an expensive lawsuit to stop them. The new law moves the burden of defending illegitimate laws away from the citizen and onto those who would enact/enforce them.
There is some opposition, of course, but it probably won't stop the passage of the law. In this article, the author clearly didn't do any research into the current law. The article itself isn't terrible, but it demonstrates how some people are opposing legislation when they are ignorant of the situation.
Specifically, all this law does is provide fines for violating state law. That isn't an unusual thing for a state legislature to do. I don't see state preemption, strengthened or status quo, as having any effect on noise ordinances either. They might not be able to ban the gun range, but a noise ordinance would make it impossible to use the range (without sound suppressors, at least.)
That being said, the state already has a number of laws protecting gun ranges, so the kerfuffle over the bill in question may be moot. |
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