Florida bill would allow military force to keep out refugees

Measures to that could bring campus carry, open carry, and improvements to the state’s laws on mandatory minimums and personal shooting ranges found approval.

The open carry measure has also generated opposition due to concerns it conflicts with Florida’s tourism-friendly image.

Two gun bills drew hostile fire from the Florida Senate Wednesday hours before the Florida House approved them.

One would allow concealed carry on college campuses.

“This bill would basically say, as a matter of policy in the state of Florida, that we’re not going to tolerate state or local governmental agencies from refusing to cooperate with the enforcement of existing federal immigration law”, Rep. Metz said on the bill. But across the Capitol, Senate Judiciary Chairman Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, R-Miami, said he won’t hear the campus-carry proposal in his committee for the second year in a row, and he indicated last week he could change his mind and not hear the open-carry plan, either. The other would allow concealed carry on college campuses.

The sheriffs’ proposals wouldn’t allow open-carry and have been opposed by gun-rights groups.

Rep. Jimmie Smith, R-Inverness, said while discussing the campus-carry issue that there hasn’t been an increase in accidental discharges of guns or the “wild, wild west” scenarios that opponents have forecast, even as the number of people with concealed-weapons licenses has grown in Florida.

“In order for them to come up, they would need to come out of committee”, said Gardiner. He said: “Both bills are troublesome; I think they really feed into people’s fear and they are totally unnecessary”.

He’s also deeply concerned with the state’s planned expansion of open carry. Steube says terrorists target gun-free zones, making college campuses less safe without guns. “And I don’t intend to withdraw any bills out of that committee”.

On restricting open carry in certain places, Republicans argued that a provision added earlier to the bill – fortifying property owners’ rights to limit whether patrons can carry weapons concealed, openly or at all – was sufficient, but that only frustrated Democrats further.

Gaetz’s legislation has been one of the hottest bills to move through the Florida Legislature during this year’s legislative session, with many members disagreeing on whether the proposal would be a good idea for the people of Florida.