Opinion by Marion Hammer
Florida – -(Ammoland.com)- On Thursday, January 11, 2018, the League of Women Voters’ lobbyist, Stephanie Owens of Tallahassee, was in the House Judiciary Committee meeting to oppose HB-55 on behalf of the League.
HB-55 by Rep. Frank White (R-Pensacola) is a bill to authorize to FDLE collect background check fees from gun dealers by electronic means.
Sometimes when you when think a group cannot be any more ridiculous, they prove you wrong. That was the case last week.
This bill is a no-brainer. It simply brings FDLE into the modern age. In a day when it is easy and cheap to set up website to simply collect payments electronically oneline, FDLE is requiring Gun Dealers to mail in paper checks every month to pay the background check fees collected the previous month.
Not only is it an enormous inconvenience to gun dealers, FDLE has to handle and open the mail, process, track and deposit paper checks. It is an outdated, and costly process.
Political candidates (legislators) set up simple websites all the time with “DONATE” buttons so they can collection donations electronically – and the money goes directly into their accounts immediately. Simple websites with payment buttons are rarely cot more than a couple thousand dollars.
So legislators understand that it’s cheap and easy and want to make the convenience available to gun dealers and FDLE. There is no real fiscal impact to do this, in fact if anything, it should save FDLE money (our tax dollars).
But the lobbyist for League of Women Voters submitted an appearance card to testify against the bill and when called upon simply stood up and said the organization opposes the bill – no reason, no explanation, no testimony.
One can only assume the organization’s leadership is so biased against law-abiding gun owners and the Second Amendment, they oppose anything that impacts guns, gun owners, gun dealers in any way.
Committee members weren’t moved by the League’s opposition, Democrats and Republicans alike supported the bill. They voted unanimously (19-0) in favor of this bill.
Marion P. Hammer is past president of the National Rifle Association and is executive director of Unified Sportsmen of Florida.
I’m overjoyed to see that they would waste any time and energy chasing something they can’t win.
I sense as well as smell Bloomberg’s B*tchs in the wings on this.
Marion- they would have to read it to know what’s in it.
Sound familiar?
Leauge of WOMAN voters.
There, I highlighted the problem for you all.
Sal, you can’t be serious. The article is written by a woman, who is also a former NRA president; a woman who has been defending our 2nd Amendment right for years. There are millions of women who participate in shooting sports, hunting, etc. Ever heard of Dana Loesch? There are countless others like her. For starters, check out the NRA Women page of Facebook for a lesson on women who support shooting sports and the 2nd Amendment. Condemning women in general rather than the League (not “Leauge” the way you misspelled it) of Woman Voters for their actions is really… Read more »
I agree. Those in this hypocritically sexist organization (excludes men, therefore it is sexist by definition) should be ridiculed as well as the organization itself. It makes no sense, and actually furthers the sexist objectives of the LOWV, to make derisive generalist statements like Sal’s.
That’s wonderful. A few examples that merely serve to highlight the inordinate number of womens’ groups who collectively seek to curtail our rights. So yes, I am serious.
From Temperance, to video games, music, movies, food, and of course guns it is almost always womens’ groups spear-heading the Nanny State. Get you head out of the sand.
yeah, sort of like all the Madd Mommies infatuated with the decrepit loser Bloomburg…. or the harpies screaming no booze is good booze, and so no one can have any. Or how bout them who promote so passionatley their “right” to kill those who are not yet born? Or the like of Killary, DiFi, Gabbling Giffords, Shannon Whats-her-name, Indian Maiden Warren, Pugliugly, or the newest one on the nationsl scene, Komalong Harris…….
Other than the problem that you don’t know how to spell the word ‘league’ correctly? What a dolt.
Way to key in on the big issue. You sure dressed me down… simpleton.