FLORIDA GOV. CHARLIE CRIST signs the Preservation and Protection of the Right to Bear Arms in Motor Vehicles Act.
The new law will protect the rights of Floridians to keep guns locked in their cars at Work and Businesses, and protect their God-given right to self-defense while on the road.
Under this new Law, employers and business owners:
- Cannot search a vehicle for a firearms;
- Cannot ask an employee whether he/she has a firearm or a Right-to-Carry license;
- Cannot prohibit a worker from legally keeping a firearm locked in a vehicle;
- Cannot fire or discriminate against an employee who has a Right-to-Carry license, owns a firearm, stores a firearm locked in a vehicle or uses a firearm lawfully in self-defense;
- Cannot order a customer to leave a parking lot for having a firearm locked in a vehicle.
More over, since the names of Right-to-Carry license holders are kept confidential under Florida privacy laws, no employer can do an Internet search to see whether you hold a license to carry a gun.
However, this fight is not yet over, Big business have filed a lawsuit in federal court, promising to spend as much as $250,000 to overturn the law that protects your rights from corporate bans on firearms in private vehicles and self-defense.
Corporate interests do not override the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens. Shrill arguments for property rights or profits must not take precedence over the lives hardworking men and women. An employer’s political philosophy or contempt for firearm rights does not trump a law-abiding person’s fundamental Right to self-protection.
