[ED: The permitless carry bill passed the Florida House yesterday. It’s expected to get a vote of the full Senate next week.]
Among the amendments rejected by the GOP included one from Orlando Democrat Anna Eskamani, which would have repealed the prohibition of carrying weapons into meetings of the Legislature – a proposal dubbed by St. Petersburg Rep. Michele Rayner-Goolsby as the “good for the goose, good for the gander” amendment.
The Republicans rejected it, which infuriated gun rights activist Luis Valdes, the state director of Gun Owners of America.
“I find Eskamani’s amendment to be a tremendous political tool because it showed the hypocrisy of Republican lawmakers towards the Second Amendment rights of Floridians,” Valdes told the Phoenix. “Her amendment would have simply repealed the ban on carrying in any committee chamber during a meeting, which other states allow. And her amendment would have repealed that ban, and Republicans shot it down.”
— Mitch Perry in FL House poised to vote on ‘permitless’ carry bill; Dems, gun safety advocates raise concerns