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.
This is false. NAGR has more lobbyists than the NRA nationwide, but they spend a lot of their focus on direct mail, e-mail and social media marketing – to get their membership base/ followers to lobby their representatives – which does not require a registered lobbyist to be in the state. They DO fundraise a lot because (believe it or not) running those types of programs are NOT FREE. There are a lot of hit pieces against NAGR and its state affiliates because they make people angry for exposing corrupt politicians – and politicians who claim to support the 2nd… Read more »
Well I can tell you this … they are spending money opb Florida races. Particularly against anti gun candidates and for pro 2A candidates. I know of at least two races this is happening in. They are a Political Action Committee. Not a lobbying organization. And they sure appear to be spending money as needed.
This is very useful except for the fact that there is no evidence (i.e quotes, links, etc) proving that this is the case in your post. Please add this so I can verify on my own.
I learned from you that FLGR was bogus. What I didn’t know until just now is that the NAGR is bogus as well. I was a member and made several donations but no more. Thank you for informing me of this.
NAGR is also active in New York . All they seem to do, is ask for MONEY. Until last year ,I was a member But no more . Heard a few things from other groups and said ,that is it I will no longer support this orig.
Thanks for making me aware of this FLGR organization. I will be attempting to do some investigation myself on this organization. I live less than 100 miles from Tallahassee and will attempt to check FLGR out the next time I’m in Tallahassee. Thanks again but I had already decided not to renew my membership, but now I feel better about not renewing.