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Scott PowersOctober 26, 2018

Time Magazine loves it some Democrats from north-central Orange County. The magazine’s latest issue, hitting newsstands Friday, features Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy of Winter Park almost front-and-center in a huge crowd of gun law debaters, in a digitally-created photo collage depicting America’s gun debate. The photo with Murphy in the center graces the cover of […]

Scott PowersFebruary 26, 2018

A set of three new proposed bills in the Florida House announced Monday seek to make significant changes in the state’s gun laws. Among the proposals: Raise the minimum age for buying a gun in Florida to 21, expand the three-day waiting period to cover the purchase of all firearms, ban “bump stocks,” and create […]

Scott PowersJune 29, 2017

Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg is packing now and he wants his employees to do so too. The Republican declared Thursday that it’s a crazy world and it’s getting dangerous for his people, so he is exercising his right as a state revenue officer, and for his deputy tax collectors, to openly carry firearms […]

Melissa RossSeptember 21, 2015

Opposition to Florida’s campus carry bill is growing on the state’s college campuses, says one spokesman for Sunshine State academia. “Campuses are exponentially safer places than virtually any other public space, other than municipal and state buildings in which concealed weapons are strictly banned,” said John White, president of the University of North Florida chapter […]

Martin DyckmanJanuary 4, 2015

Never have Americans professed more respect for our troops. It’s as if we can’t thank them enough for their service. When they travel in uniform the airlines board them first. Strangers pick up their restaurant tabs. On his way from basic to advanced training four years ago, my youngest son was in the Dallas airport […]

Tag: weapons

Stephanie Murphy front-and-center in Time magazine ‘Guns in America’ project

New bills propose gun controls, school law enforcement frameworks, Sunshine exemptions

Seminole Tax Collector Joel Greenberg arming self, his employees

Academic opponents to Florida campus carry bill speak out

Martin Dyckman: We don't give our troops the leadership and weapons they deserve