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Second Amendment March Update for November 20th

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Michigan - -(AmmoLand.com)- Things are going well with the Second Amendment March. We now have 29 State Coordinators and website traffic is holding steady at 45,000 unique visitors per week. Donations were up slightly last month but still painfully short of what we’ll need to pull this event off. I hate to beg, but even five dollars per person would be a great help in organizing efforts.

Dennis Sanford, our Field Representative, will be sending out the official letters to the gun industry next week asking for monetary and logistical support. We’re hoping that during these times of record firearm and ammo sales that the gun industry will help us out. If you have any leads on corporations or businesses (large or small) who would like to support the march, please email me at skip@secondamendmentmarch.com with all the details and I’ll follow up.

Also, I’ve recently mailed letters to Chris Cox and Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association officially asking for their support. They have a lot of resources at their command and it would be great to get their help. Already, many NRA members are helping us out, but it is NRA headquarters who controls the assets we need to help publicize the march. Feel free to call or write the NRA asking that they support the Second Amendment March in some capacity. Gun Owners of America has already pledged their support to the Second Amendment March. You can tell Larry Pratt thank you by going to www.gunownersofamerica.org.

A new and improved Second Amendment March website will be up and running in a few weeks. More details will follow in next week’s newsletter.

Your Board of Directors meets every Wednesday night to discuss and organize the march. Also, your State Coordinators meet every other Thursday to share plans and concerns as they organize on a state level.

Lately we’ve been getting a lot of help from nine-twelvers and TEA party folks. This is great because they are highly motivated and organized and they’ve already done a successful march on DC. We are learning from them everyday, and we appreciate their help.

I would like to do more radio interviews to publicize the march, so please have your local radio station contact me at 269-838-5586 to set it up. No radio station is too large or too small.

We’ve been working on a new online store and that should be up and running in two weeks. Stay tuned for details in next week’s newlsetter.

If any of you have concerns, comments, or suggestions or wish to volunteer to help promote the march, please email me at skip@secondamendmentmarch.com and we can talk. Many people feel unqualified to lead or to organize, but it’s not that tough. I can relate because I don’t feel qualified to lead either, but someone has to do it. Why not you? Contact me if you are willing to help.

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The mission of the Second Amendment March is to galvanize the courage and resolve of Americans; to petition our elected officials against establishing anti-gun legislation; and to remind America that the Second Amendment is necessary to maintain our right to self defense. Visit: www.secondamendmentmarch.com

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Floridians Retain Right to Keep Firearms in Cars

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Florida --(AmmoLand.com)-After a three-year fight, the Orlando Sentinel reports, gun rights advocates in Florida won the right to keep firearms in their cars at work.

According to a story in the Orlando Sentinel, you can take your gun to work, but there are restrictions. “Florida’s Preservation and Protection of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in Motor Vehicles Act of 2008″ isn’t completely cut-and-dried. So don’t put your pistol in your lunchpail until you know the rules.

First, not just anyone can bring a gun to work.

Only those with a concealed weapon permit from the state of Florida are protected by the law. The NRA had pushed for this change for years, arguing that many law-abiding gun owners were left unprotected on their way to and from work because their employers prohibited firearms on their property.

The Florida Chamber of Commerce and the Florida Retail Federation fought hard against the bill. They argued it would trample businesses’ private property rights by taking away their ability to set policies for their employees.

But a federal judge upheld the law, which applies to full- and part-time employees, independent contractors, volunteers, interns and other similar positions. Employers aren’t allowed to search workers’ vehicles looking for guns — or even ask employees if they have one, according to the story in the Sentinel.

What was labeled the “guns-at-work” law really should be called the “guns-in-the-parking-lot” law, gun-rights advocates say.

“It conjured up images of people having guns in their office or in their plant. It was deliberately misleading,” NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer said.

The law doesn’t allow gun-owners to carry semi-automatics weapon into offices or supermarkets where they work. Rather, it only allows them to leave it locked up in their car outside. In effect, it prevents most employers from telling their workers to leave their weapons at home.

There are exceptions. The law doesn’t apply to schools, prisons, nuclear power plants, defense plants or businesses that have combustible or explosive materials.

The exemptions built into the law became controversial after the law was passed. Some employers, including Disney and Universal Studios, twisted themselves into odd shapes to get an exemption.

Disney claims an exemption because it has a permit for explosives — namely, fireworks used in its extensive pyrotechnic displays. Universal Orlando houses a work-study program staffed by Orange County Public Schools, so it also prohibits firearms on its property.

A Disney security guard defied the ban and sued after he was fired. Eventually, the case was dismissed.

State law also allows people to carry a gun in their vehicle even without a concealed-weapon permit, as long as it is secured and “not readily accessible for immediate use.”

So, businesses can’t kick you out for having a firearm on their property, as long as it’s locked up and not being brandished.

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