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Backyard gun ranges in residential communities make little sense, state lawmakers have agreed.
A measure to ban shooting ranges in areas "primarily residential in nature" passed both houses of the Florida Legislature on unanimous votes last week.
"That will take care of issues like we saw on Big Pine Key," state Rep. Holly Raschein (R-Key Largo), a co-sponsor of the bill, said Friday.
In 2014, national news organizations and "The Colbert Report," a popular satirical news program, focused on Big Pine Key. There, resident Doug Varrieur erected a shooting range in a residential subdivision for his weekly hour of target practice. |
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sheldonsthomas
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A PR coup' only, as nothing really changed. The section the news has not reported is below:
This prohibition does not apply:
790.15 (4)(b) " If, under the circumstances, the discharge does not pose a reasonably foreseeable risk to life, safety, or property;
There are no standards - it is a judgement call just as in the current law. |
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| [The American Colonies were] all democratic governments, where the power is in the hands of the people and where there is not the least difficulty or jealousy about putting arms into the hands of every man in the country. [European countries should not] be ignorant of the strength and the force of such a form of government and how strenuously and almost wonderfully people living under one have sometimes exerted themselves in defence of their rights and liberties and how fatally it has ended with many a man and many a state who have entered into quarrels, wars and contests with them. — George Mason, "Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company" in The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792, ed Robert A. Rutland (Chapel Hill, 1970). |
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