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Florida: three briefs filed in opposition to the ballot amendment assault weap ban

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    From an NRA email for November 4, 2019

    Apparently there are three briefs to the state supreme court to block putting a proposed constitutional amendment on the 2020 ballot that will do away with assault weapons in Florida.
    The NRA, Attorney General Ashley Moody and the National Shooting Sports Foundation argued separately in the briefs that the proposed amendment should be blocked.

    It looks like the antigunners may not make the signature requirement.
    need to submit 766,200 valid petition signatures to the state by a February deadline. As of Monday afternoon, it had submitted 115,529.

    This is something we all should be aware of. By the way is GOA filing a brief or doing anything on this issue. I am not currently member of it and do not know what they are doing. IF they are doing something on it then I should be sending them some money.

    GUN RIGHTS GROUPS, MOODY TARGET ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN

    November 4, 2019
    Dara Kam

    TALLAHASSEE --- The National Rifle Association condemned a proposed constitutional amendment that aims to do away with assault weapons in Florida as a "classic example of impermissible political rhetoric" designed to inflame voters' emotions.

    "The amendment hides behind political rhetoric and a misleading ballot summary to coax voters into abridging their existing right under the Florida Constitution to keep and bear arms and criminalizing the most commonly owned rifles and shotguns in America," lawyers for the gun-rights organization wrote in a brief filed Friday with the Florida Supreme Court.

    The organization's arguments were among three briefs filed Friday in opposition to the proposed amendment, which the political committee Ban Assault Weapons NOW is trying to place on the November 2020 ballot. The Supreme Court is poised to decide whether the wording of the ballot proposal meets legal requirements.

    The NRA, Attorney General Ashley Moody and the National Shooting Sports Foundation argued separately in the briefs that the proposed amendment should be blocked. The NRA focused, in part, on the term "assault weapons."
     
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