Florida –-(Ammoland.com)- Email keeps flooding Florida gun owners from an entity calling itself “Florida Gun Rights” (FLGR) — but it is NOTÂ coming from a grassroots group in Florida. Their corporate documents clearly show their principal place of business is Colorado.
Calling itself “Florida’s Only No Compromise Gun Lobby,” FLGR frequently attacks NRA and Unified Sportsmen Of Florida (USF) but FLGR doesn’t have a clue what is going on in Florida. FLGR has no real presence in Florida. They merely have contracted with a corporate services firm to provide a Florida address to receive legal process.
When they ask you to send them money to fund their imaginary operation, they use a Tallahassee, Florida, address for you to mail your checks. But FLGR’s address is actually a drop box in a UPS Store in a strip mall in Tallahassee where UPS employees box up their customer’s mail and ship it off to their customer’s real address somewhere else.
Further, FLGR has no registered lobbyist in Florida, which means either it’s not really lobbying, or that it is lobbying illegally. Additionally, FLGR’s ‘state director’ apparently lives in Texas. We can find no evidence that he is ever in Florida.
In short, FLGR is nothing but a sock puppet — a fundraising organization that (except for some paperwork formalities) has no presence in Florida except for a shell game of addresses for service of legal documents and to rake in contributions.
It is clearly just another name for the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) a primarily Internet run organization based in Colorado with mail drop boxes around the country to receive contributions.
Since FLGR doesn’t do anything the equally bogus NAGR couldn’t do on its own, It has no apparent purpose except to double-dip the wallets of well-meaning gun owners who haven’t looked beyond the group’s name and rhetoric.
FLGR’s email claims they are a non-profit, nonpartisan, single-purpose organization.
FLGR is not incorporated as a nonprofit Florida corporation. FLGR is registered as Florida LLC (normally a for-profit small business).
Their single purpose seems to be conning you (regardless of your political party) into sending them money.
Their messages are misleading rhetoric designed to inflame. They keep asking gun owners to sign a petition to stop a bill to “ban neighborhood ranges.”
There is no “neighborhood shooting range” bill to stop. Yet, FLGR continues to email Florida Gun Owners — no less than 7 times since May 19th 2015 — raising money on a nonexistent bill.
Florida’s Legislative session ended at 11:59pm on Friday, May 1, 2015. ALL BILLS that had not already passed, died at midnight. The Legislature is now in Special Session for budget and financial issues only.
You are being deceived. It’s time you knew it.
If you want to support a real grassroots group that works on supporting the 2nd Amendment and standing up for Florida Gun owners (even helping members with legal support when needed) try Florida Carry Inc. http://www.Floridacarry.com and our 9000+ member group on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/groups/FLopencarry/ . We work very hard to educate and inform on Florida Firearm laws and rules. We also support members who have been wrongfully arrested. We work through legislation in trying to get laws changed, we were responsible for getting the law changed to allow firearms in vehicles on college campuses (Florida Carry Vs. University of… Read more »
FYI, all UPS Stores are franchise, nothing more. They are not part of the Corporate UPS. The reason I know is because; I have 10 stores that are my customers for IT work.
Anything that involves Duh-dley will always do more harm for a cause than good, but it will always line his pockets with money. Those of us in Colorado that have been trying for years to get the word out about his “fundraising” are thrilled that since he’s taken his email scams “on the road,” people are finally taking notice and making some noise!
Oh, and you can expect his Cronies, er..supporters to be bombarding your page here with comments about all the good Duh-d has done. Verify your own facts…so far you sound right on target!
NAGR and their state affiliates are scam fundraising organizations designed to separate the gullible from their money. Dudley Brown runs NAGR and all these state affiliates. All the money flows back to Dudley Brown in Colorado. They are an internet presence designed to look like they are really involved in the fight. The truth is NAGR and Dudley Brown do more to harm gun rights in this country than Shannon Watts and Mike Blooomberg. https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Truth-About-the-National-Association-for-Gun-Rights-NAGR/325633370820160?fref=ts
I bet dollars to donuts that Dudley Brown is behind this.
I don’t trust any organization affiliated with NAGR. The Mississippi group nearly destroyed efforts to get a good bill passed. In Colorado, they had a chance to make progress with the absurd magazine limit (a bill to change it from 15 to 30) and the RMGO group (NAGR’s affiliate in Colorado) managed to torpedo that.
They don’t understand politics at all. No one should trust their organizations or have anything to do with them.